Farmiga Quotes & Sayings

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them. — Taissa Farmiga

Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters. — Vera Farmiga

I was very studious and square in college. — Vera Farmiga

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold. — Andy Kindler

I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great. — Taissa Farmiga

Being in the moment is the best thing I can do. — Taissa Farmiga

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. — Vera Farmiga

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made. — Vera Farmiga

To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment. — Taissa Farmiga

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones. — Vera Farmiga

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. — Vera Farmiga

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures. — Vera Farmiga

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to. — Vera Farmiga

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it. — Taissa Farmiga

I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine. — Vera Farmiga

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not. — Vera Farmiga

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. — Vera Farmiga

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing. — Vera Farmiga

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.' — Vera Farmiga

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself. — Vera Farmiga

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything — Vera Farmiga

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union. — Vera Farmiga

I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them. — Vera Farmiga

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me. — Vera Farmiga

I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden. — Taissa Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man. — Vera Farmiga

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. — Vera Farmiga

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. — Vera Farmiga

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog — Vera Farmiga

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame. — Vera Farmiga

My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then. — Vera Farmiga

I chase after inspiring stories. — Vera Farmiga

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children. — Vera Farmiga

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me. — Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted. — Vera Farmiga

I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country. — Vera Farmiga

I just want to make sure that the thing that I see in it initially, that I think it can be, is not just going to be a horror film and reduced to a jump here and a scream there. But that you can take something away from it. — Vera Farmiga

I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way. — Taissa Farmiga

I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime! — Taissa Farmiga

I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother. — Vera Farmiga

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera. — Vera Farmiga

I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you. — Taissa Farmiga

Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently. — Taissa Farmiga

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God. — Vera Farmiga

I don't necessarily need Hollywood. — Vera Farmiga

I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space. — Vera Farmiga

We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast. — Taissa Farmiga

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York. — Vera Farmiga

I'm just someone who marvels at God. — Vera Farmiga

Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating. — Vera Farmiga

I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing. — Vera Farmiga

I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now. — Vera Farmiga

It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal. — Vera Farmiga

Sometimes music helps. If I feel that it's bogus, I'll literally just call myself out on camera and say that it's dishonest. You do whatever it takes. — Vera Farmiga

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. — Vera Farmiga

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent. — Vera Farmiga

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken. — Vera Farmiga

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life. — Taissa Farmiga

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually. — Vera Farmiga

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl. — Taissa Farmiga

Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it's not. Sometimes you don't even understand what you're feeling. You don't know how to put that into words, so how are you suppose to tell the person you love that you're upset. — Taissa Farmiga

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies. — Vera Farmiga

I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. — Taissa Farmiga

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife. — Vera Farmiga

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. — Vera Farmiga

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see. — Vera Farmiga

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance. — Vera Farmiga

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service. — Vera Farmiga

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith. — Vera Farmiga

I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that. — Vera Farmiga

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. — Vera Farmiga

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures. — Vera Farmiga

I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her. — Taissa Farmiga

I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out. — Taissa Farmiga

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. — Vera Farmiga

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress. — Vera Farmiga

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic. — Vera Farmiga

I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. — Vera Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities ... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast. — Taissa Farmiga

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters. — Taissa Farmiga

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth. — Vera Farmiga

There's no wrong way to experience a film. — Vera Farmiga

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray. — Vera Farmiga

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy. — Vera Farmiga

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. — Taissa Farmiga

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given. — Vera Farmiga

To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story. — Vera Farmiga

You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend. — Vera Farmiga

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way. — Vera Farmiga

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities. — Vera Farmiga

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese. — Vera Farmiga

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith. — Vera Farmiga

Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her. — Taissa Farmiga

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system. — Vera Farmiga

You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling. — Taissa Farmiga

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga

Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set! — Taissa Farmiga

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror. — Vera Farmiga

I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating. — Vera Farmiga

I bet you could look at every single thing I've ever done and reduce it to that parenting schematic. — Vera Farmiga