“Modern Family” quotes

“I thought one of the advantages of marrying an older guy was that I was going to be able to relax. But all of this swimming and running and rowing, it’s just like how some of my relatives got into this country!”
Sofia Vergara - Gloria Delgado-Pritchett

“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all, ‘Whaaat?'”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“With great hotness comes great responsibility.”
Sarah Hyland - Haley Dunphy

“I’m 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.”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration, and 2% attention to detail.”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“I always wanted a daughter: to dress her up in pretty dresses, do her hair, her nails, her makeup. No one knows this, but for the first year of his life, I made up Manny like a girl and told everyone that he was my daughter [laughing]. But just for a few times, I didn’t want to mess with his head. When he found the pictures, I told him that it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sofia Vergara - Gloria Delgado-Pritchett

“If it were easy, everyone would be hot.”
Sarah Hyland - Haley 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.”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“The minute they got rid of rotary phones, everything went to hell.”
Ed O'Neill - Jay Pritchett

I came out of the closet in my mid-twenties. I had to actually come out to my dad three times before he finally acknowledged it. I’m not sure if maybe he was hoping he heard it wrong like I had said, “Dad, I’m gray”.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Mitchell Pritchett

“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…”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“Everyone’s staring at us. I haven’t been judged by this many people since I forgot my canvas bags at Whole Foods.”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson - Mitchell Pritchett

“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...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“Manny thinks his dad is like Superman. The truth? He’s a total flake. In fact, the only way he’s like Superman… is that they both landed in this country illegally.”
Ed O'Neill - Jay Pritchett

“Women in their thirties on the Internet, they’re like ninjas. They get in their little black outfits and try to sneak their way into your marriage.”
Julie Bowen - Claire Dunphy