Steve McQueen quotes

Quotes by Steve McQueen

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

"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."

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

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

"I don't believe in that phony hero stuff."

"If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood."

"I live for myself and I answer to nobody."

"Nobody trusts anyone - or why did they put 'tilt' on a pinball machine?"

"Racing burns like a fever inside me."

"I'm half farmer and half street people. I've been in jail, in reform school. I get goose pimples every time I think of going back to jail... I haven't done bad for a kid from an orphanage."

"I'm out of the Midwest. It was a good place to come from. It gives you a sense of right or wrong and fairness, which is lacking in our society."

"There's something about my shaggy-dog eyes that makes people think I'm good."

"My life was screwed up before I was born."

Quotes from Television and Film

"Racing is life... everything before and after is just waiting." Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in 'Le Mans'

"Look, you work your side of the street, and I'll work mine." Steve McQueen as Lt. Frank Bullitt in 'Bullitt'.

Quotes by others

"His features resembled a fossilized wash rag." Alan Brien

"Steve had a heart as hard as steel, but inside was a great yearning to be tender." Neile Adams

"He's a misunderstood bad boy you're sure you can cure with a little warmth and some home cooking." Faye Dunaway

"He was a beautiful, beautiful man." Jaqueline Bisset

"Steve was terribly needy, with a raw, helpless kind of need. All he wanted to do was to be able to look at himself and say, That's somebody." Peggy Feury

"Steve's own instinct guided him into being a star. He knew exactly what he was doing and where he was at every moment." John Sturges

"Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died." Yogi Berra