Flik’s Quotes: A Bug’s Life (1998)

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! Please forgive me. I’m sorry!” – Flik’s quote from a movie A Bug’s Life 1998.

Flik Quotes On Life

  • “Oh… Oh, this! This is my new idea for harvesting grain. No more picking individual kernels. You can just cut down the entire stalk!”
  • “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.”
  • “Since you’re gonna be queen soon, you could use this to oversee production. Dr. Flora, if I may.”
  • “Wrong! It is, in fact…”
  • “I’m sorry. I was– I was really just trying… Trying to help.”
  • “Oh. Hello, princess.”
  • “Thanks. You can keep it. I can…make another one.”
  • “Really? Well, you’re the first. I’m beginning to think nothing I do works.”
  • “Great. One success. (sigh) I’m never gonna make a difference.”
  • “Is not– Oh… A seed. I need– I need a seed. Uh… (grunts)”
  • “(gasp) They’re here.”
  • “Hey! Hey, wait for me!”
  • “Get the food to the offering stone, then into the anthill.”
  • “Princess Atta! Princess Atta! Princess Attaaaa!”
  • “Excuse me. ‘Scuse me, pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me, coming through. ‘Scuse me, ‘scuse me. Sorry, sorry. Coming through. Princess Atta, there’s something I need to tell you.”
  • “(whispering) But, your highness, it’s about the offering!”
  • “It was an accident?”
  • “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.”
  • “Help? Help? Help?”
  • “Helpers to help us. That could– That’s it! We could…”
  • “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!”
  • “Exactly! Bigger bugs! We could find bigger bugs to come here and fight and forever rid us of Hopper and his gang!”
  • “I’ll volunteer. I’d be very happy to volunteer.”
  • “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.”
  • “But I should probably help repair some of the damage before I go, don’t you think–“
  • “Hey, hey, hey. Ease up, all right? Come on. She’s entitled to her opinion, too. Ohh…”
  • “Hey, everybody! Hey! I’m back! Hey, guys! Hey! Look. Look! Look who’s There with me!”
  • “Princess Atta! Hey! Hey, guys, this is Princess Atta! She’s the one that sent me to find you!”
  • “Here, here.”
  • “(amplified) Thank you, Your Highness. Sure, I’d like to take credit for all of this, but, well, that wouldn’t be right. Because it was you, Princess Atta. You believed in me and you sent me on my quest.”
  • “Wait! No, no! Wait, wait, wait, wait! You can’t go. You have got to help me. Give me some time. I’ll come up with a plan.”
  • “Run!”
  • “You guys, I’ve got an idea!”
  • “Let’s go!”
  • “There they are!”
  • “Thank you. Hopper’s afraid of birds!”
  • “All right. We are going to build a bird, a bird that we can operate from the inside, which would then be hoisted…”
  • “But I… I was just afraid that if you knew I’d gotten circus bugs…”
  • “Thanks, Dot.”
  • “All right, let’s do it.”
  • “They’re rounding everyone up.”
  • “Oh, no! They’ve finished collecting the food. We’ve got to get the queen now.
  • Once she’s safe, we move on Gypsy’s signal.”
  • “Go that way!”
  • “I’ve got an idea!”
  • “Come on! There! Come on! We’ve got to hide! No matter
  • what happens, stay down!”
  • “Flik, no! What are you doing?”
  • “Hopper!”
  • “No, no, no! No, I can explain!”
  • “No, please! Please, Hopper!”
  • “Flik, no! What are you doing?”
  • “Heimlich! The wagon’s taking off! You better start

Flik Quotes on Love

“Hello, princess! My, aren’t you looking lovely this morning! Not, of course, that you would need a telescope to see that–“

Motivational Flik Quotes:

  • “Oh, being little’s not such a bad thing.”
  • “No, it’s not.”
  • “Pretend– Pretend that that’s a seed.”
  • “Oh, I know it’s a rock. I know. Uh, but let’s just pretend for a minute that it’s a seed, all right? 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 voila!”
  • “Seed to tree. You’ve got to work with me, here, all right? Okay. Now, 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.”
  • “That’s right! Here I go! For the colony and for oppressed ants everywhere!”
  • “It’s going to be okay, Dot.”
  • “I just wanted to make a difference.”
  • “(weakly) You’re wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers! I’ve seen these ants do great things. And year after year, they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you. So who is the weaker species? Ants don’t serve grasshoppers. It’s you who need us.”
  • “And you know it, don’t you?”

Funny Flik Quotes

  • “(groan) Another invention?”
  • “(sigh) Flik!”
  • “Just an ordinary blade of grass and a bead of dew, right?”
  • “Is not.”
  • “Is not. Is not.”
  • “(groan) Uh, here, here.”
  • “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!”
  • “(scream) Ah! No! No, no, no, no, no, no!”
  • “No! Oh! Oh! (grunts)”
  • “Excuse me. ‘Scuse me, pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me, coming through. ‘Scuse me, ‘scuse me. Sorry, sorry. Coming through. Princess Atta, there’s something I need to tell you.”
  • “(nervous chuckle)”
  • “(suavely) Hey. Don’t worry! The colony is in good hands! Bye, now.”
  • “(sniffing) All right. Hey, fellas. Beautiful morning, huh?”
  • “Does he, now?”
  • “He doesn’t, huh?”
  • “Wow. Whoa!”
  • “Bye! (pained grunt)”
  • “(muffled) I’m okay!”
  • “Try not to look like a country bug. Blend. Blend in.”
  • “Wow! The city! (impressed laugh)”
  • “Oh, sorry.”
  • “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that. I didn’t– Oh, sorry!”
  • “Oh. I’m really, really sorry. That was an… An accident.”
  • “Pardon me, sir, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a moment. I represent a colony, uh, of ants, and I’m looking for tough bugs, you know, mean bugs, the sort of bugs…”
  • “Excuse me. Hi. I represent an ant colony, and we’re just–“
  • “I’m looking for tough warrior bugs.”
  • “Wait, wait! No, no! I-I want to watch this!”
  • “What Going On There?”
  • “You’re perfect! Oh, great ones! I have been scouting for bugs with your exact talents!”
  • “Please! Will you help us?!”
  • “Whoa, you’re vicious!”
  • “Amazing! This is too good to be true!”
  • “So you see, it was my fault that Hopper’s coming back. But then, Princess Atta… Boy, is she one in a million. She let me go out1 and find you. And after seeing you fight off those flies… Boy, are those grasshoppers in for a big surprise! (LAUGHING TRIUMPHANTLY)”
  • “Not right now, Rosie. I’m making a speech. Now, I truly believe that these bugs are the answer to our…”
  • “(quietly) No, there’s no circus around here. (amplified) So I…”
  • “(whimpers) Your Highness, the warriors have called for a secret meeting to plan for a circus– CIRCUMventing the oncoming hordes, so they can trapeze– TRAP them with ease!”
  • “No! (laughs nervously) Sorry, no, you see, it’s classified in the DMZ. Gotta go A.S.A.P. You know, strictly B.Y.O.B. Bye! Sorry. Sorry I have to take the warriors away so early, but, you know, they have a lot to get done, with the battle looming and all. So, please, everyone, enjoy the party.”
  • “Thanks again. Bye. Bye-bye. Okay, just… Just… Just get in there. Go! Go, go, go! Circus bugs?! How can you be circus bugs?!”
  • “Are you kidding? Do you know what this is? This, my friends, is false advertising.”
  • “They can’t… They can’t know the truth. The truth, you see, is bad. I will be branded with this mistake for the rest of my life. My children’s children will walk down the street, and people will point and say, “Look! There goes the spawn of Flik, the loser!” Oh… Oh, you know, all right, fine. Yeah, okay. Just go. But if you could just do me a little favor before you leave.”
  • “If you could just squish me, that would Feen great, because when they find out, I’m as good as dead.”
  • “Huh?”
  • “Princess Atta! What a nice surprise.”
  • “You can’t! They are in the middle of a top-secret meeting right now, and they really should not be disturbed now. Right, guys? (gasps) Could you excuse me, please? Wait,2 wait, wait! Please, don’t go!”
  • “Wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait! Please! Don’t go! No! No, no, no!”
  • “You can’t go! I’m desperate!”
  • “No, no, no, no!”
  • “Oh, please! Please! Don’t go!”
  • “Hey, how you guys doing? Some party, huh? Is that grain dip fresh or what? Okay. I’ve told everyone you’ll be stationed deep in
  • the command bunker. Party quiets down, I sneak you out the back way, and then
  • you’re out of here forever.”
  • “Me? Oh… I’ll get it. I mean, if you don’t mind, I’ll
  • just, I’ll just…”
  • “Nope! No, no, no. I’m sorry, no. I’ve never seen
  • anyone like that around here.”
  • “No one has ever seen anyone like that around here. So
  • you’ll probably want to get going. I guess you’ve got a lot of other anthills
  • to check into, so bye!”
  • “Hello, kids! Ready to make some grasshoppers cry?”
  • “Happy landings, Hopper!”
  • “Huh?”

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