“I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, an...” — Valerie Harper Quote

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.

Mine's called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. It's incurable. It's terminal. And it's in a tiny space - a huge area all around the brain and up and down the spine. But it's small area where the spinal fluid is. It's microscopic. You can't see it. It isn't lumps that they can say, 'Oh we can zap that.'

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

The very first soldier's funeral protest that I went to was in Omaha, Neb.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'

You know, I had grown up standing on public sidewalks, saying things that people, you know, were very provoked by and were upset by. And - but standing outside that first soldier's funeral, it was eerily quiet.

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.