Fly Quotes in A Bug's Life (1998)

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Fly Quotes:

  • Fly: I only got twenty-four hours to live, and I ain't gonna waste it here.

  • Fly: Hey, waiter, I'm in my soup.

  • Manny: I now summon the voice of Confucius...

    Fly: Get off the stage, you old hag!

    Manny: Huh? I demand to know who said that?

    [Manny is pelted with fruit]

    Manny: How dare you? Ingrates!

    [leaves]

    Gypsy: [inside box] Manny? Manny?

  • Flik: Oh, great ones! I have been scouting for bugs with your exact talents!

    Rosie: A talent scout!

    Flik: My colony is in trouble. Grasshoppers are coming. We've been forced to prepare all this food.

    Manny: Dinner theater!

    Heimlich: Food?

    Flik: Please, will you help us?

    Fly: Where are they?

    Slim: We'll take the job!

  • Francis: So! Bein' a ladybug automatically makes me a girl. Is that it, fly boy? Eh?

    Fly: Yikes! She's a guy!

  • Fly: Hey, cutie! Wanna pollinate with a real bug?

  • Fly: [inside the frog, responding to Glow Worm's negativity] Why can't you be more like, hey Lenny!

    [squeezes a smiling floating head]

    Fly: This is what I'm talkin' about!

    [pulls "Lenny" up, he is just a head]

    Fly: Lenny always has a smile on his face...

    [Lenny's eye droops, fly looks, then throws him]

    Fly: AHHHHHHH! Let me out! Let me out! I don't wanna be a toadstool!

  • Fly: He's a mad man! Run away, run...

    [the Toad swallows the fly]

    Toad: Pardon me, my fly's undone.

  • Fly: [chasing Joe in the water pipes as he escapes with the antidote] Wait! Wait, come-come back, you-you stupid fish!

    Joe: [coldly] I'm sufficiently intelligent enough to kill you... if you don't stop bothering me.

    Fly: So what? Any brute could do that. But can you tell me what the square root of... six thousand, five-hundred and sixty-one is?

    Joe: [stammers] Uh, three-hundred, divided by forty, minus three is...

    [he turns to drink more of the antidote and develops a larger, swollen head]

    Joe: Ah! Eighty-one!

    Fly: Yeah! But do you know what happens if an object travels at the speed of light?

    Joe: [drinks more of the antidote and sprouts spines, legs and arms, and tears his pelvic fins off] Ah! It turns into pure energy!

    Fly: What came first, the-the chicken or the egg?

    Joe: [drinks more of the antidote and grows in size, grows hair and longer limbs, now resembling a fish-human] It depends on the relative amount of molecules in the universe!

    Fly: What happens to a fish if he drinks too much antidote?

    Joe: It...

    [wheezes for breath]

    Joe: becomes... HUMAN!

    Fly: [coyly] Can a human breathe underwater?

    Joe: OF COURSE NOT!

    [he realizes he can no longer breathe underwater and drowns, sucked away by the pipe's current]

  • Fly: [trying to take back the potion from Joe] I'm convinced your words are true.

    Joe: Who's this?

    Fly: Please let me follow you.

    Joe: What a nice young fish.

    Fly: I'll hold the bottle, too.

    Joe: Oh no, that won't be necessary.

    Fly: I insist, just let me hold it.

    Joe: [crossly] The bottle stays with me.

    Fly: Just let me have a little sip.

    Chuck: No Fly, no! We're at the bottom of the sea, you'll drown!

    Joe: Hmm... arrest them!

  • [first lines]

    Fly: [skateboarding down the hall] Yee-haw! Going fishing!

  • Fly: [Fly and his friends are trapped in a cage with a crab guarding them] Hey, you! Crab!

    The Crab: It's against military regulations for a guard to converse with prisoners!

    Fly: You are one poor excuse for a soldier, buddy. Pretty wimpy.

    The Crab: Whaddaya mean wimpy?

    Fly: A soldier is disciplined, brave, and above all, strong.

    The Crab: What?

    Fly: [standing in front of cage bar] Well, for starters, I bet your pathetic claw can't even put a dent in this iron bar.

    The Crab: Oh yeah? Check this out! Watching?

    Fly: Yeah.

    The Crab: Ready?

    Fly: Yeah, yeah!

    The Crab: [gets ready to cut cage, but hesitates] Nah, too easy.

    Fly: [points to another bar] Wait, wait, what about this one?

    The Crab: Trivial!

    Fly: No no, this is the perfect test for your strength. We're talking one hundred percent titanium here.

    [the crab decides to snap the key instead]

    Fly: No, not-not the key!

  • Bus Driver: [driving a larger fish as a bus and addressing another fish] That will be two clams and five stones, madam.

    Fly: [gathers a few clams and gives them to the driver] Here: keep the change.

    Bus Driver: [clears his throat] Just a second! These are not valid.

    Fly: Not valid?

    Bus Driver: You'll have to get off.

    Fly: W-what? Chuck, give me your glasses.

    [to driver, handing him the lenses of the glasses]

    Fly: Here, then; have these Transatlantic, Transpacific, worldwide, oceanic-approved deluxe coins.

    Bus Driver: Very well, then. Here are the tickets.

    Fly: Hold on. Uh, these two

    [gesturing to Stella and Sasha]

    Fly: are less than six years of age. They ride for free.

    Bus Driver: Oh. Yes. Of course,

    [hands Fly back one lens]

    Bus Driver: here's a refund.

    Fly: [gesturing to Chuck] And this poor fellow is half-blind.

    Bus Driver: Well...

    Fly: It's not fair that he should pay full price.

    Bus Driver: I-I-I-I suppose that's...

    Fly: And while we're at it, could we sell back the tickets we don't need?

    Bus Driver: Uh, well, um...

    [Fly gives back the unneeded tickets]

    Bus Driver: Next time, have exact change!

    Chuck: [to Fly] And what would have happened if it *didn't* work, genius?

  • Rex: You and I are descended from the great sheepdogs. We carry the bloodline of the ancient Bahou. We stand for something! And today I watched in shame as all that was betrayed.

    Fly: Rex, dear. He's just a little pig.

    Rex: All the greater the insult!

  • Fly: Rex? I know it was hard for you today, watching all that happening. But surely it's not worth all this misery. Please, dear. Not on such a beautiful night.

    Rex: You... put these ideas into his head, Two-faced traitorous WRETCH!

    [attacks Fly]

  • Puppy: [when Babe is first brought in] What is it, Mom?

    Fly: That's a pig! They'll eat him when he's big enough.

    Puppy: Will they eat us when we're big enough?

    Fly: Oh, good heavens, no! The Bosses only eat stupid animals like sheep and ducks and chickens.

  • Puppy: [as Fly and her puppies enter the barn and sees Babe] It does look stupid, Mom.

    Fly: Not as stupid as sheep, mind you, But pigs are definitely stupid.

    Babe: [raises his head] Excuse me... no, we're not!

  • [Babe's first attempt to herd sheep just got him laughed at]

    Babe: This is ridiculous, Mum!

    Fly: Nonsense. It's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep; they're inferior.

    Babe: Oh, no, they're not.

    Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it for a second and they'll walk all over you!

    Rex: Fly! Get the pig out of there!

    Fly: Make them feel inferior - abuse them, insult them.

    Rex: Fly!

    Babe: They'll laugh at me.

    Fly: Then bite them! Be ruthless. Whatever it takes, bend them to your will.

    Rex: Enough!

    Fly: Go on, go!

  • Fly: All right - how did you do it?

    Babe: I asked them and they did it. I just asked them nicely.

    Fly: We don't ask sheep, dear; we tell them what to do.

    Babe: But I did, Mum. They were really friendly.

  • Babe: Was Rex a champion?

    Fly: He had the makings of the greatest champion there ever was. But it wasn't to be.

    Babe: What happened?

    Fly: A while back, when Rex was in his prime, the winter rains brought a great flood to the valley. Rex and the Boss got most of the flock onto the high ground. Then Rex went back to look for the strays. He found them. They'd been stranded by the rising water. He tried to herd them across to safety, but they wouldn't budge. Too scared and too stupid to save their own skins. It was freezing cold and the water kept rising. Rex stayed with them right through the night. By morning, the sheep were drowned. And when they found Rex, he was barely alive.

    Babe: Oh, Mum.

    Fly: Two weeks' rest in front of the fire saw him back on his feet, but his *hearing* was never the same again. He'd never want anyone to know, but... he's almost totally deaf.

    Babe: Is that why he's so - you know - angry?

    Fly: That's not the half of it. All this was barely a month before the Grand National Challenge. He tried his best, but he couldn't hear the Boss's calls, and it slowed him up. The cold truth is that, but for the stupidity of sheep, Rex would've been the champion of champions.

  • Narrator: Fly decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that sheep were stupid, and there was nothing that could convince her otherwise.

    Fly: Please, someone tell me... what happened this morning.

    Narrator: The sheep decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that wolves were ignorant, and there was nothing that could convince them otherwise.

    Sheep: Babe came. He saved us.

  • Fly: (about Harlem) I'd rather be a cockroach on a baseboard up here than the Emperor of Mississippi.

  • Sam: [talking about The Brother] What am I supposed to do?

    Fly: You the city, Sam. Figure out where to put him.

    Sam: Men's shelter.

    Smokey: Too smelly.

    Sam: Okay. The Hilton. You got the tab?

    Smokey: What they pay you for?

    Sam: I just make phone calls. You want him out, you could call the cops.

    Fly: Cops? Oh, man.

    Smokey: He knew the death seat when he sat down on it.

    Sam: It's not like I got to drum up more business for the city, you know?

  • Wah: I did a lot of things for our godfather too. By the age of 14, I was already getting paid to kill. I've got more guts than most guys, right? But look at me now. I'm just an ordinary guy!

    Fly: At least you were a hotshot for a while! But what about me? What about me? Everyone looks down on me. Does that make you happy? People think I'm nothing, like some stray dog just following you around! Did you know that? I'd rather be a hero for one day than go on being a fly all my life!

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