Amber Cope Quotes

I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.

I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

The mortician interviewing the corpses

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

On 'Six Feet Under,' I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn't really my role.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Coffin sales people would like to have a plague every year.

My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.

I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?