QUOTES:

• I can’t do Los Angeles. I’ve always been the anti-Barbie. I don’t want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country. As a kid I wanted attention, so I started praying for glasses because everyone had ace vision in my family. Then one day my eyes started going bad and never stopped.
• It’s terrifying to be the lead. There’s a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.
• I really don’t feel a need to be famous. But I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting.
• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.
• I’m not in this for the achievement. I’m in it for the illumination. That’s how I choose my roles, that’s how I attract roles — it’s a very spiritual process for me. And it’s the only way I can continue, and stay interested. The acting…it’s really a vocation.

• Born August 6, 1973 · Clifton, New Jersey, USA
• Birth name Vera Ann Farmiga
• Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)