Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Terence Steven "Steve" McQueenwas an American actor. Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona, developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, as well as the all-star ensemble films The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
The person is being confrontational.
Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live,
Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters.
Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine....
When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
I live for myself and answer to nobody
When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.
I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.
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.
Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.
You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.
One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.
Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
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.