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Character Quotes by Vera Farmiga
- When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a…
- There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
- 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.
- 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…
- When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
- 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…
- As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
- 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 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…
- As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer of the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts...something in a woman that…
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