Steve McQueen Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

I live for myself and answer to nobody

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

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

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

Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

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

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

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

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

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

I hope you find what you're looking for.

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

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

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

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

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.

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.

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

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

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

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

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

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

I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.

The person is being confrontational.

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.

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