Top 100 Quotes About Mcqueen
#1. If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.
Alexander McQueen
#2. A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful.
She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman.
Sarah Burton
#6. If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.
Steven R. McQueen
#8. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#9. It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#10. I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
Alexander McQueen
#11. I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.
Steven R. McQueen
#13. Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,
Steve McQueen
#14. I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
Robert Vaughn
#15. My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
Anne Robinson
#16. I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.
Steve McQueen
#17. Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
Steve McQueen
#18. When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
Alexander McQueen
#19. My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
Christian Kane
#20. I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
Alexander McQueen
#21. I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.
Brittany Snow
#22. I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
Alexander McQueen
#23. McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
Kevin Whately
#24. Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.
Lupita Nyong'o
#27. When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
Alexander McQueen
#28. My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
Steven Rodney McQueen
#29. How sad is it that in my world a human killer would be the best-case scenario?
Sierra Dean
#31. The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time.
Steve McQueen
#32. Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
Alexander McQueen
#33. Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.
Steve McQueen
#35. The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#36. Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
Alexander McQueen
#37. Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.
Steve McQueen
#38. Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be ... but I'll be good.
Steve McQueen
#39. Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
Steve McQueen
#42. I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good.
Steve McQueen
#43. There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
Alexander McQueen
#44. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#45. It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
Alexander McQueen
#46. 'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
John Lasseter
#47. As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
Butterfly McQueen
#48. Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
Steven Rodney McQueen
#49. I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula].
Steven R. McQueen
#50. I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#54. I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
Alexander McQueen
#55. The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly ... How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.
Manolo Blahnik
#57. There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.
Steve McQueen
#58. It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
Alexander McQueen
#59. Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine ...
Steve McQueen
#60. When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.
Joe Manganiello
#61. I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these questions about nudity. It's a nonsense. He's an actor, an artist, so get on with it.
Steve McQueen
#62. I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
Alexander McQueen
#63. I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
Alexander McQueen
#64. James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
Mark Wahlberg
#65. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
#67. There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen
#68. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan
#69. Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
Steve McQueen
#70. I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
Steve McQueen
#71. I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid I can relate ... to him.
Karina Halle
#72. Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
Alexander McQueen
#74. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
Steve McQueen
#75. The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
Alexander McQueen
#78. Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.
Steven R. McQueen
#79. I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.
Steve McQueen
#81. When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.
Steve McQueen
#82. I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
#83. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
Alexander McQueen
#87. I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.
Steven R. McQueen
#88. I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
Hamish Bowles
#89. You know how I feel about your scars. They only make you more beautiful.
Karina Halle
#90. When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
John Varvatos
#91. Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.
Sarah Burton
#93. People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.
Steve McQueen
#94. I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not ... black.
Alexander McQueen
#95. Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.
Hamish Bowles
#96. Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked
Rod McQueen
#97. Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.
George Tillman Jr.
#98. Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#99. These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn't be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn't conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
Alexander McQueen
#100. I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.
Steve McQueen
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