Phil Connors – Character Quotes

— It's a perfect day. You couldn't have planned a day like this.
— Well, you can. It just takes an awful lot of work.

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

— It's amazing. It's beautiful. How did you do that?
— I know your face so well, I could have done it with my eyes closed.

— What are you looking for? Who's your perfect guy?
— Well, first of all, he's too humble to know he's perfect.
— That's me.
— He's intelligent, supportive, funny...
— Intelligent, supportive, funny. Me, me, me.
— He's romantic and courageous.
— Me also.
— He's got a good body but he doesn't have to look in the mirror every two minutes.
— I have a great body, and sometimes I go months without looking.
— He's kind, sensitive and gentle. He's not afraid to cry in front of me.
— This is a man we're talking about, right?
— He likes animals, children, and he'll change poopy diapers.
— Does he have to use the word «poopy»?
— Oh, and he plays an instrument, and he loves his mother.
— I am really close on this one. Really, really close.

— Do you ever have «déjà vu», Mrs. Lancaster?
— I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.

— It's the same thing your whole life. «Clean up your room! Stand up straight! Pick up your feet! Take it like a man! Be nice to your sister! Don't mix beer and wine, ever!» Oh, yeah. «Don't drive on the rail road tracks!»
— Well, Phil, that's one I happen to agree with.

No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now... because I love you.

— Something is different.
— Good or bad?
— Anything different is good. But this could be real good.

Don't you have some kind of a line that you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a Celebrity in an emergency.

— What are you doing for dinner?
— Something else.

You make Choices and you live with them.

— What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
— That about sums it up for me.

— Uh, Phil. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
— I'm betting he's gonna swerve first.
— Phil... Phil! Phil! Aah!

What I wanted to say was... I think you're the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never seen anyone that's nicer to people than you are. And the first time I saw you something happened to me. I never told you... but I knew that I wanted to hold you as hard as I could. I don't deserve someone like you. But if I ever could... I swear I would love you for the rest of my life.

— Did you sleep well, Mr. Connors?
— I slept alone, Mrs. Lancaster.
— Would you like some coffee?
— I don't suppose there's any possibility of getting an espresso or Cappuccino this morning, is there?
— Oh, I really don't know, um...
— How to spell espresso or Cappuccino. This looks fine.
— I hope you enjoy the festivities.
— Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'm going to...
— There's talk of a blizzard.
— Well, we may catch a break and that blizzard's gonna blow right by us. All of this moisture coming up out of the south by midday is probably gonna push on to the east of us. And at high altitudes it's gonna crystallise and give us what we call snow. Probably be some accumulation. But here in Punxsutawney, our high's gonna get up to about 30 today, teens tonight. Chance of precipitation, about 20 percent today, 20 percent tomorrow. Did you want to talk about the weather or were you just making chitchat?
— Chitchat...