Groundhog Day (1993) · 104 quotes
Most-quoted character in Groundhog Day (1993): in 78 of its 104 quotes
Most scenes with: Rita (21), Ned Ryerson (3), Gus (3)
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank Piña Coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over...
Phil Connors Somebody asked me today, "Phil, if you could be anywhere in the world, where would you like to be?" And I said to him, "Prob'ly right here - Elko, Nevada, our nation's high at 79 today." Out in California, they're gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some very overpriced real estate. Up in the Pacific Northwest, as you can see, they're gonna have some very, very tall trees.
Phil Connors People like blood sausage, too. People are morons.
Phil Connors Could you help me with my pelvic tilt?
Phil Connors Chance of departure today, one hundred percent.
Phil Connors So'd you turn pro with that belly button thing, Ned?
Phil Connors Ned, I would love to stand here and talk with you... but I'm not going to.
Phil Connors Yeah, they're hicks, Rita.
Phil Connors This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
Phil Connors Come on, all the long distance lines are down? What about satellite? Is it snowing in space? Don't you keep open a line for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.
Phil Connors I make the weather.
Phil Connors Well, it's Groundhog Day... again...
Phil Connors What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
Phil Connors You're a producer, come up with something.
Phil Connors This is Nancy, she works in a dress shop... and she makes sounds like a chipmunk when she gets really excited.
Phil Connors I'm betting he's going to swerve first.
Phil Connors Catch you tomorrow, huh pops?
Phil Connors I told you, call me Bronco.
Phil Connors This is a man we are talking about, right?
Phil Connors Does he have to use the word "poopy"?
Phil Connors It always makes me think of Rome, the way the sun hits the buildings in the afternoon.
Phil Connors I like to say a prayer and drink to world peace.
Phil Connors This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Well, it used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you! You have a problem with what I'm saying, Larry? [Larry shakes his head "no."] Untie your tongue, and you come out here and talk, huh? Am I upsetting you, Princess? [Rita shakes her head "no."]
Phil Connors I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.
Phil Connors There is no way this winter is ever going to end, as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.
Phil Connors Don't drive angry.
Phil Connors Well, we mustn't keep our public waiting.
Phil Connors I'm a god, I'm not the god... I don't think.
Phil Connors You like boats, but not the ocean.
Phil Connors You gotta want it.
Phil Connors Be the hat. Come on! Go!
Phil Connors Gosh you're an upbeat lady.
Phil Connors I promise I won't touch you ... much.
Phil Connors Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
Phil Connors When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.
Phil Connors If you're gonna eat steak, get some sharper teeth, alright?
Phil Connors No matter what happens tomorrow or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now.
Phil Connors Today is tomorrow. It happened!
Phil Connors It's so beautiful!... Let's live here. [he kisses Rita] We'll rent, to start.
Phil Connors Thats not bad for a quadruped.
Phil Connors La fille qui j'aimerai/Sera comme un bon vin/Qui se bonifiera/Un peu chaque matin (The girl I will love/will be like a fine wine/which gets a little better/ each morning)
Phil For your information, there is a major network interested in me.
Uh, yeah. That would be the Home Shopping Network.
Phil Thanks, Larry. Wait in the car.
Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil Hi, thanks for watching.
Hey now, don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you.
Phil Not a chance.
Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing. Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil Ned Ryerson?
BING!
Phil Bing.
Phil! Where have you been?
Phil It was horrible. A giant leech got me.
Phil So, did you sleep OK without me? You tossed and turned, didn't you?
You're incredible.
Phil Who told you?
Phil, like the groundhog Phil?
Phil Yeah, like the groundhog Phil.
Look out for your shadow there buddy.
Phil Morons, your bus is leaving.
Would you like to come to dinner with Larry and me?
Phil No thank you. I've seen Larry eat.
Phil 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.
Phil It's the same things 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 railroad tracks!"
Eh, Phil... That's one I happen to agree with.
Phil Three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and a large coke.
And some flapjacks.
Phil Too early for flapjacks?
Have you ever had d?jà vu?
Phil Didn't you just ask me that?
I'm sorry? What was that again?
Phil I'm a god.
You're God.
Phil I'm a god — I'm not the God, I don't think.
Because you survived a car wreck?
Phil I didn't just survive a wreck; I wasn't just blown up yesterday. I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted and burned.
Oh really?
Phil Every morning I wake up without a scratch on me, not a dent in the fender: I am an immortal.
Why are you telling me this?
Phil Because I want you to believe in me.
You're not a god. You can take my word for it; this is 12 years of Catholic school talkin'.
I thought you hated this town.
Phil No, it's beginning to grow on me.
Believe it or not, I studied 19th century French poetry.
Phil What a waste of time! — I mean for someone else that would be an incredible waste of time. It's so bold of you to even choose that. It's incredible. You must be a very, very strong person.
I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way.
Phil My years are not advancing as fast as you might think.
Phil Do you ever have d?jà vu, Mrs. Lancaster?
Mrs. Lancaster I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.
You can't plan a day like today.
Phil Well you can, it just takes a lot of work.
Hallway man Do you think it's going to be an early spring?
Phil I'm predicting March 21st.
What are you doing for dinner?
Phil Something else.
Phil Isn't there any hot water?
Mrs. Lancaster No, there wouldn't be today.
Phil No, of course not...
Phil Excuse me, where's everybody going?
To Gobbler's Knob. It's Groundhog Day.
Phil It's still just once a year, isn't it?
Are you drunk?
Phil Drunk's more fun.
Don't you worry about cholesterol?
Phil I don't worry about anything.
Not bad... Mr. Connors, you say this is your first lesson?
Phil Yes, but my father was a piano mover, so...
Phil Can I be serious with you for a minute?
I don't know. Can you?
Phil What if there were no tomorrow?
No tomorrow? That would mean there would be no consequences, there would be no hangovers. We could do whatever we wanted!
Phil I'm not going to live by their rules any more.
I noticed that.
Phil You make choices and you live with them.
Phil The whole world is about to explode, what do you do?
I just want to know where to point the camera.
Phil Isn't this how normal people talk?
Close.
It is a really wonderful room.
Phil It is now.
And I hate fudge. Yuck.
Phil No white chocolate, no fudge.
E.R. nurse Sometimes people just die.
Phil Not today.
Phil Something is different.
Good or bad?
Phil Anything different is good.
Phil?! Hey! [runs up to him] Phil? Phil? Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for watching.
Hey, hey! Now don't you tell me you don't remember me 'cause I sure as heckfire remember you!
Phil Not a chance.
Ned! Ryerson! "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? Come on, buddy, Case Western High! Ned Ryerson - I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson - got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing again! Ned Ryerson - I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple of times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil Ned Ryerson?
Bing!
Phil Bing. So did you turn pro with that whole belly-button thing Ned or-?
No, Phil, I sell insurance.
Phil What a shock.
Do you have life insurance? Because if you do you could always use a little more. Am I right or am I right or am I right? Right? Right? Right?
Phil Ned, I'd love to stand here and talk with you...but I'm not going to. See you. [walks off]
That's okay! I'll walk with you! See, whenever I see an opportunity, I charge it like a bull. "Ned the Bull", that's me now. You know, I have friends who live and die by the actuarial tables and I say, "Hey! It's all one big crap-shoot anywho!" Tell me, have you ever heard of single premium life because I think that could really be the ticket for you. [stops walking] Oh, God! It is so good to see you! Tell me, what are you doing for dinner?
Phil Something else. It's been great seeing you, "Needlehead". Take care. [steps off the curb into a deep, watery puddle]
There is something so familiar about this. Do you ever have déjà vu?
Phil Didn't you just ask me that?
I'm amazed. And I'm not easily amazed.
Phil About what?
About how you can start a day with one kind of expectation and end up so completely different.
Phil Well, do you like how the day is turning out?
Very much. You couldn't plan a day like this.
Phil Well, you can. It just takes an awful lot of work.
Phil 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. [kisses her cheek] 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.
Phil Good night.
Phil I just want to give you your money's worth. You paid top dollar for me.
Well...I think you were a bargain.
Phil It's sweet of you to say. You're probably right.
