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Six Feet Under

A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challengin

(71 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (17)Season 2 (11)Season 3 (15)Season 4 (19)Season 5 (9)

Characters

Brenda Chenowith (17)Rachel Griffiths (17)Alan Ball (16)Peter Krause (15)Nate Fisher (15)Kate Robin (11)Bruce Eric Kaplan (9)Craig Wright (9)Rick Cleveland (8)Frances Conroy (7)

“Stop listening to the static.”

— Craig Wright, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: static, Noise, Distraction

“I guess we all wanna be loved. It’s hard to say no to that, no matter who it’s coming from.”

— Scott Buck, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com

Tagged: Being Loved

“Well it’s like how many evildoers do you have to kill before you become one yourself, you know?”

— Kate Robin, Claire Fisher, Lauren Ambrose, imdb.com

Tagged: Evildoers, Murder

“I think it’s all about timing. I think timing is everything.”

— Craig Wright, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Timing

“I think if you’re afraid of something it probably means you should do it.”

— Rick Cleveland, Alan Ball, Bettina, Kathy Bates, imdb.com

Tagged: Fear, Determination, Carpe Diem

“I’m sick of being so fucking conscious all the time. It’s like I’m this incredibly boring, watered-down of myself.”

— Kate Robin, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Conscious, Boring, watered=down

“I say, if life offers you a new beginning, take it.”

— Jill Soloway, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, New Beginning, Opportunity

“How can you grow as an artist, if you don’t have the freedom to fail now and then?”

— Jill Soloway, Russell Corwin, Ben Foster, imdb.com

Tagged: Artist, Freedom, Failure

“Society propagates this vision of people hooking up and staying together forever. In reality, how often does that actually happen?”

— Rick Cleveland, Claire Fisher, Lauren Ambrose, imdb.com

Tagged: Society, hookup culture, Monogamy

“When someone sees you as you really are and wants to be with you, that’s powerful.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Keith Charles, Mathew St. Patrick, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Understanding, Powerful

“I know where you are. I was there. And I’ll wait for you because I love you. But I’m not moving backwards for anybody.”

— Laurence Andries, Keith Charles, Mathew St. Patrick, imdb.com

Tagged: Moving Forward, Moving Backward

“Everybody forgives everybody for everything.”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: forgiveness

“I just feel like all I do, all day long, is just manage myself, try to fuckin' connect with people. But it's like, no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no fuckin' guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick y…”

— Craig Wright, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Connecting, Guarantees, Security, Trains

“That’s the thing about Narcissus, its not that he’s so fucking in love with himself, because he isn’t at all, he fucking hates himself. It’s that without that reflection looking back at him, he doesn’t exist.”

— Alan Ball, Billy Chenowith, Jeremy Sisco, imdb.com

Tagged: Narcissus, Narcissism, Fucking, Self-Love, Self-hatred

“I wouldn’t change anything. If you change one thing, that changes everything. And some things are the way they should be.”

— Nancy Oliver, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Change, Fear of Change

“That's where everything started. In those cave paintings there was the creation of the idea of image, of the representation of ourselves.”

— Alan Ball, Russell Corwin, Ben Foster, imdb.com

Tagged: cave paintings, Image, Representation

“You hang onto your pain like it means something, like it's worth something. Well, let me tell ya, it's not worth shit. Let it go. Infinite possibilities, and all he can do is whine.”

— Nancy Oliver, Nathaniel Fisher, Sr., Richard Jenkins, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, Shit, Hanging On, whine, possibilities

“Maybe your soul mate is the one who forces your soul to grow the most?”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ari Ziskind, Byron Noble, imdb.com

Tagged: Soul Mate, Soul

“Lisa didn't believe in borders, and that is why I know that wherever Lisa is right now, she's everywhere! She's everywhere, and that means she's home!”

— Craig Wright, Barb, Julie Dretzin, imdb.com

Tagged: Borders, Home

“You sit in such judgment of the world. How do you expect to ever be a part of it?”

— Rick Cleveland, Olivier Castro-Staal, Alan Ball, imdb.com

Tagged: Judgment, Isolation, Solipsism