16 Movie Quotes about Present (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 4, 2026

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

1 There's a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Grand Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda

2 I'd like to quit thinking of the present like, right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.

Quote from Dazed and Confused (1993)

3 Why is it always, always so costly for man to move from the present to the future?

Quote from 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

4 Fantasy? No. No. It's history. It's happening.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

5 I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

Brad Bird as Edna "E" Mode; Edna E Mode in The Incredibles

6 There is just one reality left - we are here and it is now. You get ahold of that and hang on to it, or you might as well be dead.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

7 Where did it go? -Go? -Nowhere, in the usual sense. It's still here. But it's no longer in the present.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

8 You must remember that the space you're putting your hand through is today's space. You can't put your hand into the space of tomorrow.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

9 The future is now!

Jim Carrey as Cable Guy in The Cable Guy (1996)

10 This is the present, Phillip. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Kevin Costner as Robert Butch Haynes in A Perfect World