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Vera Farmiga

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    Vera Farmiga

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

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    But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.

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

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

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    Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

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

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

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    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.

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    Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

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    Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

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    I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

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

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

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    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.

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    I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I chase after inspiring stories.

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    I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

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

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

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    I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

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    I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

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    I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

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    I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

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    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.

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    I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

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    I'm a full-time mom. I've never felt as prepared, as before maternity.

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    I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

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    I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

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    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.

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    I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

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    I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

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