Top 112 McQueen Quotes & Sayings

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.

When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

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.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

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.

When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.

I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.

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.

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

Alexander McQueen will always be top of my list and I am really into Gianmarco Lorenzi heels.

I have an obsession with black, so I love Alexander Wang and Alexander McQueen.

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

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.

Steve McQueen from 'The Getaway' is tough and independent. He can be diffident but is unabashed when it comes to love. And he's undeniably sexy.

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

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.'

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Every member of the Beatles drove a Radford. Enzo Ferrari, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Twiggy, they all had one. So it had this really kind of cult, celebrity following.

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.

I think Alexander McQueen was very, very special. When I went to his first show, I couldn't speak because I was so enthralled. I was saying to myself, "What am I looking at here? What's going on here?" Because, I'm really a loner. I've been a loner for a long time, because I guess I prefer that. For me to get the best out of myself, I have to trust my judgment. And so while watching an Alexander McQueen collection, I would feel isolated. Even though I was surrounded, I would still feel isolated by what I was looking at, if that makes sense.

I live in a lot of Alexander McQueen.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.

I've always been a huge admirer and lover of Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang. I love so many British designers like Stella McCartney.

My favourite designer was Alexander McQueen. His lines were different every time.

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.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different.

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.

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.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

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.