Vera Farmiga - Best Quotes

Romantic

I have tender romantic associations with upstate New York.

Religion

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.

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.

Religion

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

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.

Religion

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

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

Nature

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Music

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Vera Farmiga

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Movies

I for one am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

Vera Farmiga

I for one am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

Movies

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

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.

Movies

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

Vera Farmiga

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

Knowledge

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

Vera Farmiga

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

Humor

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

Vera Farmiga

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

Home

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Vera Farmiga

I have tender romantic associations with upstate New York.

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.

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.

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

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

I for one am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

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.

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

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

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

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.