28 Movie Quotes about Butterflies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about butterflies, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I'm going to change into a beautiful butterfly. Yeah, I will because I have what it takes right here, inside. And you know what, kid? So do you. You proved it by getting this far. Just look inside.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

2 Butterfly? Butter...

Hardie Albright as Bambi in Bambi (1942)

3 Aw! My caterpillar never turned into a butterfly. -That's a Cheeto. -Oh!

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

4 What's a butterfly doing on my nose? Do you think it's lost? I hope it doesn't think it's found a home. -If it does, it probably thinks it found a condominium.

Brent Hauer as Peppermint Patty; Marcie From Charlie Brown in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

5 It was a miracle, Sally. This butterfly landed on my nose. And then, it turned into an angel. -Your nose turned into an angel?

Cindi Reilly as Sally Brown; Brent Hauer as Peppermint Patty in It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

6 Someday I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better.

Joe Ranft as Heimlich in A Bug's Life

7 Wait. What happens when I read it? -No one knows, but legend says you will be able to hear a butterfly's wing beat.

Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu in Kung Fu Panda

8 The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa... and, from thence, into beauty.

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs

9 I'm finished! Finally, I'm a beautiful butterfly!