Frances Conroy

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there. ”

Marriage is an exercise in torture. ”

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup. ”

Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person. ”

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future. ”

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ”

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ”