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.
It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.
Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
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.
I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!
The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.
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.
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.
