Dot Quotes in A Bug's Life (1998)

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Dot Quotes:

  • Flik: Here, pretend - pretend that that's a seed.

    Dot: It's a rock.

    Flik: Oh, I know it's a rock, I know. But let's just pretend for a minute that it's a seed, alright? We'll just use our imaginations. Now, now do you see our tree? Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!

    Dot: This rock will be a tree?

    Flik: Seed to tree. You've gotta work with me, here. Alright? Okay. Now, y-you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed.

    Dot: But it's a rock.

    Flik: [shouting] I know it's a rock! Don't you think I know a rock when I see a rock? I've spent a lot of time around rocks!

    Dot: You're weird, but I like you.

  • [Dot gets a rock]

    Dot: Pretend it's a seed, okay?

    Flik: Thanks, Dot.

    Francis: Hey, what's with the rock?

    Slim: Must be an ant thing.

  • Hopper: Where do you get the gall to do this to me?

    Flik: You were... you were gonna squish the queen.

    [all the ants gasp]

    Dot: It's true.

    Hopper: I hate it when someone gives away the ending.

  • Flik: You can't go! I'm desperate!

    Slim: Really? I couldn't tell!

    Dot: Hmph.

  • Flik: Hello kids! Ready to make some grasshoppers cry?

    Dot: It's payback time... Blueberry style!

    Lead Blueberry Scout: Blueberries rock!

  • Stella: Y'know, I saw this TV show: Rosie O'Donnell took a bunch of dykes on a cruise to Nova Scotia, then this flock of lesbians got married there.

    Dot: Flock?

    Stella: That's what they call us when we're in a group; a gaggle of gays, a flock of lesbians. Like in nature.

    Dot: Stella, are you proposing to me?

    Stella: Maybe.

  • Helen Brandt: That woman just bought a quart of this stuff at forty-five dollars a molecule!

    Dot: Why does anyone who looks like that want to smell good?

    Helen Brandt: Dot, where do all these women get all the money they have clutched in their hot little hands?

    Dot: I could tell you, but a sweet kid like you wouldn't believe it.

  • Keeto: I wonder where I've Seen her before?

    Dot: Keeto! Now what?

  • Dot: I don't like it here.

    Ant Sargeant: You better get use to it; You're our prisoner here; You're going to be working here for the rest of your life.

  • Keeto: I can't stand to watch this; I'm too delicate for this; I shall return when this is over; Au Revoir.

    Dot: Oh, Keeto.

    Dot: [turns to Butterwalk] Butterwalk, what's happening to you?

  • Alex: Now what?

    Dot: We need to get some grown-ups to help.

    Owen: Grown-ups?

    Dot: Yes.

    Alex: Oh, that's a pity. They always make such a fuss.

    Owen: And they take so long to do anything.

    Alex: Yeah. Kids are best at getting things done.

  • Dot: Lots of whales do this: come to the beaches. But why do whales do it? Why? It's a hard life in the sea, but it's just as hard on the land.

  • Dot: This is a girl whale. Her name is Tonga. Nelson told me about her.

    Owen: Who's Nelson?

    Alex: Probably a jellyfish.

    Dot: Actually, he's a dolphin.

  • Nelson: Careful! It's a sea snake! Don't touch it!

    Dot: What?

    Nelson: It's an electric eel!

    Dot: A what?

    Nelson: It's a... what is it?

  • Dot: [to a sleeping penguin] Aww. Asleep.

    Penguin: [wakes up] Not asleep. I never sleep on duty.

  • Dot: It must be very hard being a mother out here.

    Penguin: I don't know anything about being a mother! I'm a father! It's my duty to mind the egg while my wife gets a bite to eat.

    Dot: Oh, I didn't know. All you penguins look the same to me.

    Penguin: Oh, how curious. All you humans look the same to me.

  • Moby Dick: What do you want?

    Dot: It's about Tonga. Do you know her? She's a whale too.

    Moby Dick: There are so few of us left. I know them all.

    Dot: Would you tell her to return to the sea?

    Moby Dick: I will not tell her anything.

    Dot: But please, she'll die soon. There won't be any time left.

    Moby Dick: Listen. Listen to me. You've heard my story. You know how I fought against the greatest whaler of them all, the mighty Captain Ahab. I may have one that battle, but we have lost the war. If Tonga wishes to die on the sand, let her. It will save them the trouble of killing her. It is people who must decide what happens to us. Why don't they leave us alone?

  • Dot: Airline Cargo Corporations?

    Woman over Phone: Yes, that's correct.

    Dot: Do you carry whales?

    Woman over Phone: This is an airline, not a zoo!

  • Dot: How do you stay underwater for so long?

    Nelson: Oh, dolphins, porpoises, whales, we can stay down as long as we'd like.

    Dot: Oh, I wish I could.

    Nelson: Sure, you can.

    Dot: A person, you mean? Stay underwater?

    Nelson: Yes, it's a special way of doing things. It's called dolphin think.

    Dot: Will you teach me?

    Nelson: Yes. Because you're such a good back scratcher.

    Dot: Oh, Nelson!

    Nelson: Of course, I'll teach you, and you know I'll do it, because you're the only human who has really learned the language of the animals.

    Dot: Well, it wasn't like learning. You know, like learning French or Japanese.

    Nelson: What do you mean? Learning is learning. Or are you so smart you just knew it like magic?

    Dot: Yes, that's right. Like magic.

    Nelson: I hope you can dolphin think as easily as that.

    Dot: Me too.

  • Dot: I didn't take a breath for 20 minutes! I wasn't cold, and I could hear you, and you could hear me! We didn't talk!

    Nelson: Of course, you do have a good teacher.

  • Tonga: The ocean. How I loved the ocean. It was my world. Oh, I remember mother, so gentle. My father, so big and strong... and then they came. The man with the ships and the guns. And then my father was gone, and then my mother, and then all my friends. I wanted to go with them, but they didn't take me... I was too big to take, and too small to kill. I'll never return to the ocean.

    Dot: But you must. You'll die out here on the beach.

    Tonga: I know. I don't want to live anymore. There's no place for me to go. No family. No friends.

  • Nelson: Dot, there is a way to make Tonga return to the sea.

    Dot: How?

    Nelson: She'll return if Moby Dick tells her.

    Dot: Moby Dick? The White Whale?

    Nelson: Yes.

    Dot: But Moby Dick's not true. He's in a story.

    Nelson: He might be in a story, but he's still true. He rules all the seas. He's old and very wise.

    Dot: Well, let's ask. Come on.

    Nelson: Wait. He's very hard to find.

    Dot: Does he know about Tonga?

    Nelson: Oh, yes. He knows about everything that happens in the ocean.

    Dot: And Tonga will do what Moby Dick says?

    Nelson: All the creatures of the sea obey Moby Dick.

    Dot: I want to see him.

    Nelson: Dot!

    Dot: Take me, Nelson. Please?

    Nelson: All right, but it's a long way, and it could be dangerous.

  • Dot: Oh, Nelson, look at all this rubbish. Sometimes, I feel so ashamed to be a human.

  • Dot: I wanted to save the whales. So peaceful. What harm have they done to us?

  • Nelson: We dolphins, porpoises and whales used to have arms and legs like you.

    Dot: Was that millions of years ago?

    Nelson: Then we came into the sea for a little visit, and we liked it better.

  • Dot: What are you doing?

    Alex: What do you think we're doing? Making mud pies! We can do whatever we want! It's a free country!

  • Dot: [singing] You left me for the open road / And where you went, I didn't know / But now you say / You're back to stay / Isn't it good again? / Isn't it right again?

  • Dot: You know, Mayor, you've been *real* scarce around here. It's good to have you back.

    Mayor: [aside to Del] I was just here for breakfast!

  • Dot: Rabbits are important. What about Easter time? Whenever you think of Easter, you think of the Easter bunny.

  • Dot: I told you I only date assholes.

    Trevor: Yes, and I'm not an asshole. And since you want an asshole, my not being an asshole makes me more of an asshole than the assholes that you normally date, because they're giving you exactly what you want, whereas I, by not being an asshole, am not. Which makes me an asshole.

    Dot: I can't believe I actually understood that.

  • Dot: Trev, what would you do in that situation?

    Trevor: Oh, I'd most likely shit myself.

    Ben: And I most likely would have to clean it up.

    Dot: Don't worry about them. They're idiots.

    Peaches: Oh, okay.

    Ben: I have to clean him up when he shits himself.

    Dot: God.

  • Dot: I've have exactly one life, and for reasons I myself don't really understand, I now believe that life somehow will not be fulfilled unless I'm standing at the bottom of the worlds deepest pit with you two perverts!

  • Dot: I'm sure you have the life insurance squared away?

    Ed McDonnough: Have we done that honey? We gotta do that honey!

    Dot: You gotta do that HI! Ed's got her hands full with this little angel.

    H.I.: Yes, ma'am.

    Dot: What would Ed and little angel do if a truck came along and splattered your brains all over the interstate?

    Ed McDonnough: Yeah honey! What if you get run over?

    Dot: Or carried off by a twister?

  • Dot: You gotta get 'em dip-tet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision

  • Dot: Rollie! You take that diaper off your head and you put it back on your sister!

  • Dot: Where's that baby? Where's he at?

    Glen: [Glen smacks Dot on the butt] Go find him, honey!

    Dot: [Dot smacks Glen with her purse] Cut it out, Glen!

    H.I.: [quietly] He's asleep right now.

    Glen: [rubbing his jaw] Shit! I hope we didn't wake it!

    Dot: Can I just sneak a peek-a-loo?

  • Dot: [GASPS after seeing Nathan Jr] What's his name?

    Ed McDonnough: Uh... Hi... Hi Junior, till we think of a better one.

    Dot: Why don't ya call him Jason? l just love biblical names. If I had another little boy, I'd name him Jason, Caleb or Tab.

    [GASPS; covers her face with her hands and looks through her fingers]

    Dot: He's an angel! He's an angel straight from heaven! Now honey, I had all my kids the hard way. Tell me how you got this little angel. Did he fly straight down from heaven?

    Ed McDonnough: Well...

    Dot: You're gonna send him to Arizona State.

  • Dot: You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the university.

  • Dot: The guys paid a dollars apiece to find out if you're single.

    Lydia Callahan: Tell the guys I have five husbands, each one rich, mean and jealous. I'll be rotatin' them through on a weekly basis.

    Dot: That line will be all over the valley by breakfast.

    Lydia Callahan: Oh, just tell 'em I own a rifle.

  • Dot: You know, addressing envelopes ain't as tough as it's cracked up to be.

    Cassie Barnes: No?

    Dot: No! There's a lot of money in it. I doped the whole thing out a while ago. At a dollar and a half a thousand, if I sell an envelope to everybody in the United States, I'd make a hundred and fifty thousand dollars!

    Cassie Barnes: That's swell. Have you figured out how long it's going to take you to do that?

    Dot: Oh, um... About two-hundred and fifty years.

    Cassie Barnes: I had no idea there was such a future in it.

  • Dot: Well what are you doing home?

    Cassie Barnes: Job number three is now a thing of the past.

    Dot: Yeah? What happened?

    Cassie Barnes: Oh, the Manager had a lot of brand new ideas. He tried to take my waist measurement.

    Dot: Oh, I know. Wanted to see if you were gaining any weight, huh?

    Cassie Barnes: Yeah.

  • Dot: Say, Cass, you don't happen to know of a good man layin' around loose, do ya? A plumber or something? I'd grab the first one that came along so - I - wouldn't - have - to - type - these - silly - stupid - things!

    Cassie Barnes: Oh, you're always yelping about men, Dot!

    Dot: Yeah, well that's my trouble. All I do is yelp. But, I never can get my clutches on one.

    Cassie Barnes: Oh, they give me a pain!

  • Cassie Barnes: Oh, I met a new breed this morning.

    Dot: Yeah, what's he like?

    Cassie Barnes: Rich, handsome, - and a sap! He was in the store when I had the scrap this morning. Brought me home in his car.

    Dot: What happened? Did he make a pass at you?

    Cassie Barnes: No, he didn't even try to date me up! The conceded fool!

    Dot: Well, what are you kicking about? Isn't that what you want?

    Cassie Barnes: Yeah, but a man doesn't have to be insulting, does he?

  • Cassie Barnes: Well, goodbye slave. I'm gonna have my lunch in style!

    Dot: Yeah and I hope you choke!

  • Dot: I was gonna throw this stuff out - but, you might as well eat it. Aw, there's one of the finest little weenies that ever graced a paper plate. It's a little shriveled from old age. But, of course, you can't have everything. And the baloney - well, its just baloney.

  • Dot: Listen, if he'll take you, grab him while the grabbin's good! And in a little while, maybe he'll find what a heel he's been and marry you anyway. And if he don't, what's the odds? You'll have a beautiful apartment, plenty of clothes and pot full of Do-Re-Mi.

  • Gladys Kane: Oh, Cassie, don't get in my class.

    Dot: Why shouldn't she get in your class? What's wrong with your class? Say you're a great one to be talkin' and you living in the lap of luxury.

    Gladys Kane: Listen, Dot, I'd scrub floors if I could start all over again.

    Dot: Awww! That's a lot of plain, ordinary hooey! And in the meantime you're living on Park Avenue, have a car of your own, and you eat at the Ritz. Well, all I can say is you're havin' a swell time!

  • Dot: Say, the trouble with you is, you've forgotten how awful it is to live in a dump like this. You don't know what it means to have to cut down on your food, so you can scrap together the rent or else old horse-face downstairs will throw you out on your what's-it. Say, listen, did you ever have to eat liverwurst seven days a week, cause you couldn't afford anything else? Well, try it sometime, you'll be nuts about it!

    Gladys Kane: You've got to hang on to your self respect, Dot. And that's important.

    Dot: Awww, what's your self respect when your hungry? It won't get you a porterhouse, will it?

  • Gladys Kane: So long, Dot.

    Dot: Goodbye.

    Gladys Kane: Look me up sometime, I'll show you life among the rich and miserable.

    Dot: Says you!

  • Cassie Barnes: I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing, Dot.

    Dot: Awww, nertz! If you think it's right, it's right! That's the only way to look at it.

  • [last lines]

    Dot: But being invisible isn't worth it in the end, because when you're invisible, other people may not see you, but you can't help seeing other people.

  • Dot: One day, we wake up and we realize the world sucks. We suck for being in it and we run away. Anything but to face ourselves as we are. Anything to avoid asking why we hate ourselves so much.

  • Dot: They say that the truth can set you free, that's a lie. The truth is lies can protect us. Lies keep us safe from the truth.

  • Dot: All I wanted was to be invisible. It was a simple request. It didn't involve anyone else. When I was in a room with another person, I felt like I was only half there. When I was in a room with two other people, I felt like a third of myself. When I was in a room with three other people, I felt like a quarter of myself. And when I was in a whole crowd of people, I felt like nobody.

  • [first lines]

    Dot: All I wanted was to be invisible.

  • Dot: I used to hold my breath under water for long periods at a time. My father took me to the YMCA Saturday mornings. Submerged in the pool I heard nothing but my own heartbeat echoing against the water. I would've stayed underwater forever if my father hadn't been waiting for me in the bleachers by the diving pool. When someone is waiting for you, you have to come up for air.

  • Dot: You look... beautiful. Same old Birdee.

    Birdee Pruitt: [beat] Same old Dot.

    Dot: [laughs incredulously] You have no idea who I am, do you?

    Birdee Pruitt: [beat] No. Ha, ha, sorry.

    Dot: That's all right. When I knew you I was about seven inches shorter and 70 pounds heavier. We didn't exactly eat at the same lunch table.

    Birdee Pruitt: Polka Dot?

    Dot: [laughs nervously] Oh, goodness!

    Birdee Pruitt: Is that right?

    Dot: Yeah... Nobody's called me that in a long time.

    Birdee Pruitt: You look fantastic!

    Dot: [uncomfortable] Thank you.

    Birdee Pruitt: It's remarkable!

    Dot: Was I really so awful before, Birdee?

    Dot: Oh, no-no-no, I just meant...

    Dot: I know what you meant. People change as they get older, we improve.

    [beat]

    Dot: Gosh, you look exactly the same.

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