Vera Farmiga

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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

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.

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

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 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.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

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

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

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.

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

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

There's no wrong way to experience a film.