- Rose Nylund: [about Phil] So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him.
- Sophia Petrillo: [voice cracking] I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was.
- Angela Petrillo: [tenderly] What he was Sophia, was a good man.
- Sophia Petrillo: [breaking down crying] My baby is gone!
- Sophia Petrillo: Dorothy, I never understood why your brother liked to wear women's clothes. Unless he was queer.
- Blanche Devereaux: Sophia, people don't say queer anymore, they say gay.
- Sophia Petrillo: They say gay if a guy can sing the entire score of "Gigi." But, a six foot three, two hundred pound married man with kids, who likes to dress up like Dorothy Lamour, I think you have to go with queer.
- Blanche Devereaux: He looks very peaceful and natural.
- Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: Yeah... as natural as a man can look wearing a black teddy.
- Rose Nylund: It's a beautiful teddy... I think more men should be buried in teddies.
- Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: I've just gotta remember that it's not the clothes that make the man, it's the man that makes the clothes oh God he looks like he died in a Benny Hill sketch!
- Rose Nylund: You need to know about my cousin Ingmar. Ingmar was different. He used to do bird imitations.
- Blanche Devereaux: Well, what's wrong with that?
- Rose Nylund: Let's just say you didn't want to park your car under their oak tree.
- Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: I don't know, Ma, I guess Phil had some deep psychological need and cross dressing provided an emotional outlet.
- Rose Nylund: I may be old fashioned, but why didn't he just drink?