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.

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.'

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

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

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

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

Music is what our feelings sound like.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

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.

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

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