Claire Fisher quotes from Six Feet Under

Ruth

Claire, are you depressed?

Claire

I'm not even going to answer that question.

Ruth

Well, whatever you're going through, I hope you don't blame me.

Ruth

I would like to go on record as saying I am in full support of you going to art school.

Claire

Consider it recorded. But I'm just taking a tour. Let's not get our panties in a wad over it.

Claire

[on Nikolai] How thrilled are we that we never have to call him "Daddy"?

David

Thank God she snapped out of it.

Russell

I think it's really cool that you live in a funeral home.

Claire

Believe me, it's not.

Russell

Are you kidding? I'm jealous. It's totally weird … and excellent and perfect for when they write your biography.

Olivier

You're eighteen! You should be consumed with sex! Everything that happens should make you want to fuck. Your flesh should be on fire all the time!

Claire

[deadpan] It is.

Russell

Yeah.

Russell

I don't wanna live without you. I can't.

Claire

[annoyed] You're gonna have to.

Russell

I'm not gonna give up.

Claire

That's your fucking problem.

You're looking for me?

Claire

Yeah. Where the fuck is your grave?

Claire

[seeing Gabriel] He's dead?

Don't ask me. This is your thing.

How's life?

Claire

How's death?

Claire

Look, I'm sorry. I didn't …

Russell

Just give me a second, okay? … Just give me a second to get used to the idea of living with this for the rest of my life.

Claire

Are you fucking kidding me?

Russell

No, I'm not kidding you, Claire! It's fucking sad! It's fucking sad and it's fucked up. I mean, did you cry? Did you?

Claire

I cried more than you have ever cried in your whole life.

Russell

[breaks down] Then give me a fucking second to feel bad about this, okay? Just a motherfucking second!

Claire

Geology is controversial?

George

Oil, Claire, oil!

Anita

[about Russell] I could have sworn he was gay. He's knitting!

Claire

Haven't you noticed a lot of straight guys knit these days? It's like a macho thing. Like, "I'm so straight I can even knit!"

Russell

[watching a documentary about cave paintings] That's where everything started. In those cave paintings there was the creation of the idea of image, of the representation of ourselves.

Claire

Exactly. That's when we stopped living inside nature and started living inside our heads.

Anita

Yeah, just while we can just sit back and watch while greedy corporate Bush suckers destroy nature, since we're no longer a part of it.

Russell

If you take humans out of nature, then all there are left with is human nature.

Claire

Okay, that sounds really good, but what the fuck does that mean?

Edie

I don't understand what's changed.

Claire

Nothing's changed. Part of me thinks this is what I want and part of me thinks it isn't, but … what if the part who thinks it isn't feels that way because I'm scared?

Claire

It's so much easier to be gay.

David

Oh no!

Claire

Yeah, I'd have a really defined subculture.

David

Overrated!

Claire

We're both women, I'd have some idea of what she was thinking and feeling.

David

Not necessarily.

Claire

I wouldn't have to deal with unfamiliar sex organs.

David

They're all unfamiliar unless they're yours.