Right here, right now

October 10, 2009 2:38 PM

I'm looking for famous movie quotes that contain either the word "here" or the word "now".

They would ideally be quotes that anyone would recognize, like "Now is the winter of our discontent." This is, as you might expect, difficult to search for.

posted by painquale to Media & Arts (26 answers total)

Here's looking at you, kid.
posted by eve harrington at 2:40 PM on October 10, 2009

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
posted by Bromius at 2:41 PM on October 10, 2009

Scarlett in GWTW: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
posted by tamitang at 2:48 PM on October 10, 2009

"Careful man, there's a beverage here!"
-The Big Lebowski

posted by elmer benson at 2:54 PM on October 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

AFI's 100 years of movie quotes has some good ones (all "here", no "now":

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

I'm walking here! I'm walking here!

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

Here's Johnny!

They're here!
posted by drinkcoffee at 2:54 PM on October 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

Sherry in 'Logjammin': [on video] You must be here to fix the cable.
-The Big Lebowski

posted by elmer benson at 2:55 PM on October 10, 2009

The Dude: Look, nothing is f*cked, here, man.
-The Big Lebowski

posted by elmer benson at 3:00 PM on October 10, 2009

Luke: I will come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.
-Star Wars

I am enjoying this a lot more than I imagined I would.
posted by elmer benson at 3:04 PM on October 10, 2009

Howard Beale: "I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"
posted by googly at 3:06 PM on October 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

Both -

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!" - Withnail, Withnail & I.
posted by fire&wings at 3:08 PM on October 10, 2009 [2 favorites]

You can search via Google at imdb:

now

here
posted by iconomy at 3:08 PM on October 10, 2009

"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac…It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" Bill Murray Caddyshack

That is a twofer, since "nowhere" is both "now" and "here".
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 3:09 PM on October 10, 2009

I can remember reading that "Let's get out of here!" is supposed to be the most used line in film history.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:22 PM on October 10, 2009

Leia to Han, Empire, as the next thing goes wrong, "Now what?!"
posted by Ghidorah at 5:30 PM on October 10, 2009

Maude: Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm merely acting as a gentle reminder: here today, gone tomorrow, so don't get attached to things.
Harold & Maude

posted by neewom at 5:33 PM on October 10, 2009

Also, from Arsenic and Old Lace:

1. Now, here's ten dollars. Why don't you be a good sport and go out and haunt yourself a hotel?

2. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it. Now, I don't know why you're making such a big deal over this, Mortimer. Don't you worry about a thing!

posted by neewom at 5:42 PM on October 10, 2009

When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master!
-Darth Vader to Obi Wan as they saberfought
posted by kookoobirdz at 6:34 PM on October 10, 2009

"Don't you blaspheme in here! Don't you blaspheme in here! This is my man, this is my restaurant, and you two are gonna turn around and walk right out of here - without your dry white toast, without your four fried chickens, and without Matt 'Guitar' Murphy!"
-Mrs. Murphy (Aretha Franklin) in The Blues Brothers
posted by SisterHavana at 7:03 PM on October 10, 2009

"Give me your clothes! All of dem! Now!Schwartzenager 1980s movie - probably Terminator.
posted by path at 7:36 PM on October 10, 2009

"So why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?"

- Biff Tannen, Back to the Future
posted by pokeydonut at 12:45 AM on October 11, 2009

The Fatboy Slim track 'Right here, right now' takes its sample ("Right here! Right now") from the movie Strange Days.
posted by Cantdosleepy at 3:05 AM on October 11, 2009

Here's Johnny!
posted by Thorzdad at 8:45 AM on October 11, 2009

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 9:58 AM on October 11, 2009

"We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 10:01 AM on October 11, 2009

"Here it comes. Now, Mr. Spock." (sc. 93)
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 10:10 AM on October 11, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks for all the responses, everyone!
posted by painquale at 11:28 PM on October 11, 2009