Modern Family Phil Dunphy Quotes
“If laughter is the best medicine, consider yourself grape flavored Triaminic.” – Phil Dunphy
“If God wants a hamburger, this is what she cooks it on!” – Phil Dunphy
“I love filmmaking and I love love. I guess you could say I enjoy making love on film and I love doing it by myself.” – Phil Dunphy
“I’m cool dad, that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face.” – Phil Dunphy
“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all, ‘Whaaat?’”” – Phil Dunphy
“Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration, and 2% attention to detail.” – Phil Dunphy
“I always felt bad for people with emotionally distant fathers; it turns out I’m one of them. It’s a miracle I didn’t end up a stripper.” – Phil Dunphy
“The iPad comes out on my actual birthday. It’s like Steve Jobs and God got together to say, “We love you, Phil.”” – Phil Dunphy
“I’m the cool dad. That’s my thing. I’m hip. I surf the Web. I text. LOL: laugh out loud. OMG: Oh, my God. WTF: Why the face? Um you know, I know all the dances to High School Musical so…” – Phil Dunphy
“What’s my coaching philosophy? Give a kid a bird and he becomes one of those weird dudes that walks around with a bird on his shoulder. But give him a pair of wings? He can fly…” – Phil Dunphy
“It’s like you’re shaking hands, but you’re not using your hands. At all.” – Phil Dunphy
“I am brave. Roller coasters? Love ’em. Scary movies? I’ve seen Ghostbusters like, 7 times. I regularly drive through neighborhoods that have only recently been gentrified. So yeah, I’m pretty much not afraid of anything… except for clowns. Never shared that with the family so, shh– I do have an image to maintain. I am not really sure where the fear comes from, my mother says it’s because when I was a kid I found a dead clown in the woods, but who knows?” – Phil Dunphy
“Let me know if you run low on supplies, I’ll take a quick trip to the 1950s for you.” – Phil Dunphy
“We like to think we are so smart, and we have all the answers. And we want to pass all that on to our children, but if you scratch beneath the surface you don’t have to dig very deep to find the kid you were. Which is kind of crazy that now we’re raising kids of our own. I guess that’s the real circle of life.” – Phil Dunphy
“You have nothing to fear, but fear itself… and the concrete.” – Phil Dunphy
“This stuff’s really hitting me. My insides feel like velvet.” – Phil Dunphy
“Some people call me a salesman, I call myself a salesfriend, so obviously I need strangers to trust me. I don’t take it kindly when someone Tom Sellecks my bus bench.” – Phil Dunphy
“Note to Claire, if you want intense family drama, rent Spy Kids.” – Phil Dunphy
“I know the pain is fresh, but the lie is really old.” – Phil Dunphy
“One day I’m gonna be a grandfather and then everybody better hide their meat.” – Phil Dunphy
“I love you when you’re human” – Phil Dunphy
“Sad face emoticon! I can feel the hurt through the phone!” – Phil Dunphy
“Baby doll, I’ve been lying to my wife for 16 years.” – Phil Dunphy
“Um, things I want: robot dog, night vision goggles, bug vacuum, GPS watch, speakers that look like rocks… I love my wife, but she sucks at giving gifts. I’m sorry for the pay-channel language, but- oh! Yogurt maker! I can’t not think of things I want.” – Phil Dunphy
“I don’t like to talk about money. But I have exactly ten million dollars.” – Phil Dunphy
“You can kiss my wife, you can take her to bed, but only I can make her laugh.” – Phil Dunphy
“Always keep the rhythm in your feet and a little party in your shoulders” – Phil Dunphy
“Spontaneous human combustion is very rare!” – Phil Dunphy
“I’m not a rider, I’m a strider.” – Phil Dunphy
“There is no guy, I’m the guy” – Phil Dunphy
“Their ship went down but their love lasted forever!” – Phil Dunphy
“You can’t do this. We’re a danger to ourselves. We’re a family of fire starters, poison eaters, and online prostitutes.” – Phil Dunphy
“If laughter is the best medicine, consider yourself grape flavored Triaminic.” – Phil Dunphy
“I’ve always said that if my son thinks of me as one of his idiot friends, I’ve succeeded as a dad.” – Phil Dunphy
“Life’s too short to be ruled by fear. What do you say we get you the right dryer princess?” – Phil Dunphy
“If you can’t beat em, drone em!” – Phil Dunphy