Top 67 Quotes About Steve Mcqueen
#1. I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
Robert Vaughn
#2. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#3. '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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
Orlando Bloom
#7. 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
#8. Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
Michel Hazanavicius
#9. 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
#10. I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
Martin Freeman
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
Christian Kane
#19. 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
#20. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan
#24. 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
#25. 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.
#26. 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
#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. You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Leonard Cohen
#30. People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.
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#31. 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.
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#32. I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
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#33. When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.
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#34. I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
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#35. When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'
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#36. I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful
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#37. When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.
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#38. I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.
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#39. One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.
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#40. You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.
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#41. I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.
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#42. The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.
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#43. I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.
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#44. If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood ...
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#45. Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.
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#46. I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.
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#47. Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.
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#48. Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#56. Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.
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#57. Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be ... but I'll be good.
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#58. Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
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#59. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine ...
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#63. 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.
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#64. Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
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#65. I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
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#66. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
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#67. I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.
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