A Bug's Life (1998) · 109 quotes
In 7 of the 109 quotes from A Bug's Life (1998)
Most scenes with: Flik (5), Princess Atta (4), Queen (4)
Oh, it's Flik!
Thorny All right, listen! The Princess doesn't have time for this! You wanna help us fill this thing?! Then get rid of that machine, get back in line, and pick grain, like everybody else!
Oh... Wind's died down. They'll be here soon.
Just be confident, dear. You'll be fine.
Ah! There's a gap. There's a gap in the line! What are we gonna do?!
Thorny It's okay, Your Highness. Gaps happen. We just lost a few inches, that's all.
Oh, right. [hovers over Thorny's shoulder]
Thorny Your Highness, I can't count when you hover like that.
Oh, of course. I'm sorry. [chuckles] Go ahead.
Guys, go shade someone else for a while. Okay, Atta. Now what do we do?
Oh! Don't tell me. I know it. I know it. What is it?
We relax!
Right.
Oh, it'll be fine. It's the same, year after year. They come, they eat, they leave. That's our lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's our life. [laughs. Atta laughs too] Isn't that right, Aphie? Oh, you're such a cute little aphid. [As she sets Aphie down, the two ant boys pop out of a hole in the ground]
Ditch Dot!
Yeah, yeah!
Hey, come back here! [tries to hover after the boys. But drops to the ground]
Dot!
Yes, Mother.
What did I tell you about trying to fly?
Not until my wings grow in.
Right.
But, Mom...
Dot, you're a young queen ant, and your wings are too little to be...
I was talking to Mother! You're not the queen yet, Atta!
Now, Dot, be nice to your sister.
It's not my fault she's so stressed out.
Atta!
Princess Atta! Princess Atta!
Hey! Stop that!
What do you think you're doing?!
You could have killed somebody over here!
Thorny Oh, it's Flik.
I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me! I'm sorry! [The council members lift the stalk, freeing Atta; Flik exclaims] Princess Atta!
Flik, what are you doing?
Oh... Oh, this? This is my new idea for harvesting grain! No more picking individual kernels! You can just cut down the entire stalk!
Flik, we don't have time for this.
Exactly! We never have time to collect food for ourselves, because we spend all summer harvesting for the Offering! But my invention will speed up production.
Yeah, and I've got something for you, too. [Picks up a blade of grass and folds it into a cone]
Since you're gonna be queen soon, you could use this to oversee production. [borrows a dewdrop from Dr. Flora's flower] Dr. Flora, if I may.
This is all very nice, but...
Thorny What?
Just an ordinary blade of grass and a bead of dew, right?
Flik, please.
Wrong! It is, in fact... [drops the dewdrop in the middle of the blade] A telescope!
Hello, princess! My, aren't you looking lovely this morning! Not, of course, that you would need a telescope to see that...
Thorny All right, listen! The Princess doesn't have time for this! You wanna help us fill this thing?! Then get rid of that machine, get back in line, and pick grain, like everybody else!
Like everybody else!
Please, Flik. Just go.
I'm sorry. I was... I was really just trying... [Thorny and Cornelius gesture pointing for Flik to go] Trying to help.
"Harvester"! Why, we've harvested the same way ever since I was a pupa.
Flik, what do you have to say for yourself?
Sorry. I-I'm sorry for the way I am. I didn't mean for things to go so wrong. I...especially didn't want to make you look bad, Princess.
Well, Flik, you did.
I was just trying to help.
Then help us. Don't help us.
Help? Help? Help?
Flik, you are sentenced to one month digging in the tunnels.
Thorny Uh, excuse me, Your Highness. Need I remind you of Flik's tunnel-within-a-tunnel project?
Helpers to help us. That could... That's it! We could...
Thorny It took the whole engineering department two days to dig him out. Send him to Health and Ant Services.
Heavens, no!
We could leave the island. The riverbed's dry right now. We could just walk right across the riverbed. We could go get helpers. We could! We could leave, sure. We could go find helpers to help us. It's perfect!
Perfect? What's so perfect?
Your Highness, don't you see? We could send someone to get help!
Why didn't I think of that? Oh, because it's suicide!
Thorny She's right. We never leave the island.
Never leave!
Thorny There's snakes and birds and bigger bugs out there!
Exactly! Bigger bugs! We could find bigger bugs to come here and fight and forever rid us of Hopper and his gang!
Ludicrous!
Who would do a crazy thing like that?
I'll volunteer. I'd be very happy to volunteer.
At least we could try. Oh, I-I could... I could travel to the city. I could search there!
If you went, you'd be on that silly search for weeks.
Thorny Royal huddle. [whispering] Great idea, princess. It's perfect.
Exactly.
Wait a minute. What did we just decide here?
To let Flik leave.
While we keep harvesting to meet Hopper's demands.
You see? With Flik gone, he can't...
He can't mess anything up! [After talking with the Council] Flik, after much deliberation, we have decided... to grant you your request!
Really?
Really?
Uh, really.
Oh! Thank you, princess. Thank you so much for this chance. I-I-I won't let you down, I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise.
Yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's fine. No, forget it, forget it.
But I should probably help repair some of the damage before I go, don't you think...
No! No, no!
Just go. Just go.
Just leave!
Hey, look who's playing lookout again. Little Speck!
The name is Dot.
Well, Spot, you still looking for Flik?
Forget it, Dot. That loser's never coming back.
What?
Quit shoving!
Flik! Over here! Flik! Flik!
Hey!
He did it! He did it! Yay! He did it! He did it!
Cool!
Thorny At the rate these leaves are dropping, we're gonna need a miracle.
That's right! We need a miracle!
You mean, you're not warriors?
Are you kiddin'? These guys are the lousiest circus bugs you've ever seen, and they're gonna make me rich!
Thorny You mean to tell me that our entire defensive strategy was concocted by clowns?!
Hey, hey, hey, hey. We really thought Flik's idea was gonna work.
Oops.
No, you don't... You don't...
This couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time! The last leaf is about to fall!
We haven't collected any food for the grasshoppers!
Thorny If Hopper finds out what we almost did--
Hopper is NOT going to find out. We're going to hide all this and pretend it never happened. [angrily points to the Circus Bugs] You bugs were never here, so I suggest you all leave.
I never thought I'd see the day when an ant would put himself before the rest of his colony.
The point is, Flik, you lied to us.
No, no, no, no! I just--
You lied, Flik. You lied to her. You lied to the colony! You lied to ME! And like an idiot, I believed you.
But I was just afraid that if you knew I'd gotten circus bugs. [looks at Princess Atta, still mad, sighs sadly] I just wanted to make a difference.
I want you to leave Flik, and this time, don't come back.
Tough crowd. [Snaps the reins and the wagon rolls off] Yee-haw!
Flik.
Thorny Come on boys!
Hey, Princess Dot! Wait up!
I finally get a second to relax, and I got to get out of my chair. Come on! You can rub lotion on me later, shade boy.
Yeah, hubba-hubba.
Oh, thank you!
Thank you.
You're too kind.
The least we could do.
All in a day's work.
Any time.
Dim!
I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry.
Hey, let's go. We got a schedule to keep. Come on. Let's go.
Hup, hup, hup, hup, hey!
Hey, Tiny! Let's get this show packed up! We got paying customers hatching!
Yes, Mr. Flea. Yes, sir. Of course, sir. Right away, sir. And, um, I just wanted to thank you for giving me a chance, because it's an honor to work with creative giants such as yourself. [P.T. motions the fireflies to close the wagon door] Shutting up.
Sorry. My place is here.
Oh, well. Your loss. One minute, insects!
I want to thank all of you for giving us back our hope, our dignity... and our lives.
And to you, Princess Atta. You have given us so much. Please accept this gift from us bugs to you ants.
Oh! [chuckles] It's a rock.
Thorny Must be a circus thing.
Well, Flik, you really goofed up. [quavering] Thanks.
All right. Now it's getting mushy. We're out of here! [Snaps the reins and the millipedes pulling the wagon move as the bugs take off and Dim grabs lifts the wagon into the air]
Whoa!
See you next season!
See you Flik!
Bye! We miss you already!
You fired!
I'm finished! Finally, I'm a beautiful butterfly!
Mein wings! Oh, they're beautiful!
Heimlich! The wagon's taking off! You better start flying!
But I am flying! And from way up here, you all look like little ants!
Farewell!
Bye!
And thank you!
Thorny Present stalks!
Thorny Harvester, salute!
[The harvesters launch their stalks into the air, crashing into each other and producing firework-like showers of grain. Flik and Atta hold hands as they and Dot continue waving goodbye. The circus troupe flies away from the island, now surrounded by water and whose tree now bears pink blossoms]
Flik
Dave Foley
Francis
Denis Leary
Gypsy
Madeline Kahn
Hopper
Kevin Spacey
Princess Atta
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Mr. Soil
Roddy McDowall
Queen
Phyllis Diller
Dot
Hayden Panettiere
Heimlich
Joe Ranft
P.T. Flea
John Ratzenberger
Slim
David Hyde Pierce
Manny
Jonathan Harris
Molt
Richard Kind
Rosie
Bonnie Hunt
Dr. Flora
Edie McClurg
Cornelius
David Ossman
Dim
Brad Garrett
Grub
Reed
Tuck and Roll
Michael McShane