Steve McQueen

I live for myself and answer to nobody

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.

— 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…

— Steve McQueen

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken…

— Steve McQueen

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because…

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was…

— Steve McQueen

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does…

— Steve McQueen

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never…

— Steve McQueen

The person is being confrontational.

— Steve McQueen

I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then…

— 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…

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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…

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Steve McQueen