Vera Farmiga Quotes

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

'Fame' exhausts me.

I think fame makes people a bit nervous.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

I struggled with the limelight.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.