Claire Fisher quotes from Six Feet Under

Claire

What am I, some knocked-up Victorian wife that has to stay hidden from view?

Claire

I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.

Claire

If we live our lives the right way, then every single thing we do becomes a work of art.

Claire

Nate, you know, this isn't The Matrix. The rest of us who don't have babies, we're real.

Claire

I'm just trying to prepare for the worst so when it actually happens, I don't feel so awful.

Claire

The world is ending out there, and people are just getting cosmetic surgery and watching debutantes get screwed up the ass.

Claire

"Light from a cake is such a great light. We should just live in cakelight" (when they bring in the birthdaycake on Nate's 40st. birthday).

Ruth

Is this a school trip?

Claire

No. You go to the mountains and confront fear and get in touch with your most basic self... It looks good on your college application.

Algebra forces your mind to solve problems logically. It's one of the only perfect sciences—

Claire

You think the world runs on logic? Come on. Open your eyes.

Good. That's what I want people to think.

Claire

When in reality you're, like, this compulsive liar, danger slut.

I thought you were, like, this Goth arty freak girl......who was, like, tragic and suicidal.

Claire

Oh, my God, that is so not who I am.

I was in school today. I just wasn't in American History. I mean, who needs to know that shit anyways?

Claire

Well, somebody who wants to have some concept of how the world works so they can have a fucking chance in life.

Claire

You know, it's polite for the first person downstairs to make the coffee even if that person has a penis!

Nate

Well, you know, it's also polite for the first person who uses the bathroom to spend less than 45 minutes in there even if that person has a vulva.

Ruth

[entering] Oh goodness, everyone's here.

David

With all their genitalia.

No one can ever solve someone else's life.

Claire

So basically, your job is pointless.

No one but a guidance counselor, I mean.

David

Maybe Emily Previn was autistic. I read an article once about a high-functioning autistic person who didn't need people. She just had a job designing these big cattle slaughterhouses. At night, she came home and sat in a machine that made her feel like she was being hugged. And that was all the intimacy she needed.

Nate

That's really upsetting.

Claire

I don't see why this person has to be mentally ill just because she had a life that doesn't conform to some familiar image that we have in our heads. Maybe she was living the life she wanted. The life without the hassle of other people.

Ruth

What kind of a life is that?

Margaret

More punch, anyone?

Claire

Sure, I'll take another hit.

Margaret

Are you sick, dear, or are you always this deathly pale?