Vera Farmiga Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Self, Different

  "Vera Farmiga's Unforgettable Role". PARADE interview, parade.com. November 6, 2008.

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

  Vera Farmiga

  Writing, Character, Female

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

• I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Victory, Watches

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

• When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Encounters, Female

  "Freddie Highmore, Vera Farmiga, and Producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin Talk BATES MOTEL at Paley Center Panel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 15, 2013.

• The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Media

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2011.

• As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Actors, Lawyer

  "Vera Farmiga interview: Chats 'Up in the Air' and her craft". Interview with Stephen Whitty, www.nj.com. December 7, 2009.

• 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

  Character, Judging, Stories

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

• 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.

  Vera Farmiga

  Jobs, Character, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

• When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

  Vera Farmiga

  Daughter, Mother, Character

  "For Vera Farmiga, A Search Leads To 'Higher Ground'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 26, 2011.

• 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.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Want, Despise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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