Top 100 Quotes About Mcqueen
#1. A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful.
She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman.
Sarah Burton
#2. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#3. I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
Robert Vaughn
#4. My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
Anne Robinson
#5. 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
#6. My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
Christian Kane
#7. 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
#8. McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
Kevin Whately
#9. 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
#10. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#11. 'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
John Lasseter
#12. I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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.
#23. 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
#24. In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.
Philip Treacy
#25. People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.
Anna Wintour
#26. The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
Willie Geist
#27. Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow
#28. A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
Maureen McCormick
#29. When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.
Josephine De La Baume
#30. My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#31. You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Leonard Cohen
#32. I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.
Lupita Nyong'o
#33. Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#34. A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.
Pierce Brosnan
#35. Fate. Sounds romantic."
"You must not know anything about mythology, then, Mr. McQueen. In all the old myths, the Fates were the villains.
Tiffany Reisz
#36. There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different.
Sarah Burton
#37. You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.
Diane Ladd
#38. It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.
Sarah Burton
#39. I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.
Naomie Harris
#40. I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.
Pierce Brosnan
#41. I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood ... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
Natalie Dormer
#42. I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
Kit Harington
#43. My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.
Michael Kors
#44. With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson
#45. I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
Martin Freeman
#46. R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.
Joe Zee
#47. Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#48. Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'
Aimee Mullins
#49. Alexander McQueen ... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.
Donatella Versace
#50. And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
William Friedkin
#51. For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
Alexander McQueen
#52. Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
Michel Hazanavicius
#53. Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?
- Sam McQueen
Sally Nicholls
#54. I'm in a squad where I'd rather shoot the C.O than the enemy.- Cooper Hawkes
Knock it off. -T,C. McQueen
You know what I'm saying, Sir. I mean I never felt like shooting you. -Cooper Hawkes
Stop it, Hawkes. You're making me all misty.-- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#55. The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
Alfred Molina
#56. I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. The McQueen woman doesn't want to feel casual. It's not that kind of world. When you put on the clothes, they make you stand differently, feel differently. It was about how to do that but make it feel light. I've always been part of Lee's romantic side, that's what I love.
Sarah Burton
#58. My favourite designers always create a strong silhouette, like McQueen and Tom Ford and Alaia. I like structured things that you can throw on, and it's almost like armour, and you're, like, ready for the day.
Liberty Ross
#59. I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.
Malcolm X
#60. Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
Orlando Bloom
#61. Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.
Kelly Cutrone
#62. I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
Donatella Versace
#63. In truth, though, she could not bear the idea of having a phone on her all the time, wherever she went. Could not be at ease knowing she might get an urgent call from Christmasland, some dead kid on the line: Hey, Ms. McQueen, did you miss us?!?
Joe Hill
#64. What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?
Lauren Gilley
#65. I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
Herb Ritts
#66. I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.
Katie McGrath
#67. 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
M. C. Gainey
#68. We don't want him, we want you.-- Cooper Hawkes.
This isn't a dating service. We're in the middle of a war. If we stop following orders, there will be no order. It'll all fall apart.- T.C. McQueen
James Morrison
#70. You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
#71. I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.
Ashley Benson
#72. 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
#76. 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
#78. It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,
Steve McQueen
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.
Alexander McQueen
#86. I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
Alexander McQueen
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. How sad is it that in my world a human killer would be the best-case scenario?
Sierra Dean
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#98. 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
#99. Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.
Steve McQueen
#100. Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be ... but I'll be good.
Steve McQueen
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