Best 36 quotes of Steve Mcqueen on MyQuotes

Steve Mcqueen

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I hope you find what you're looking for.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

  • By Anonym
    Steve Mcqueen

    You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.