Steve McQueen movie quotes

“Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security.”
Steve McQueen

“I live for myself and I answer to nobody.”
Steve McQueen

“I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.”
Steve McQueen

“I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.”
Steve McQueen

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

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

“I'm not that interesting of a person.”
Steve McQueen

“- Vin: What're you gonna do when Calvera comes?
- Old Man: At my age, a little excitement is welcome. Don't worry. Why would he kill me? Bullets cost money.”
Steve McQueen - Vin Tanner
Vladimir Sokoloff - Old Man

“- U.S. Marshal Joe Belle: Do you know who I am?
- Tom Horn: No.
- U.S. Marshal Joe Belle: What you were in the Southwest, I was in the Northwest.
- Tom Horn: I was mostly out of work.”
Billy Green Bush - U.S. Marshal Joe Belle
Steve McQueen - Tom Horn

“Sam, I never did see such a pasty-faced bunch of marshals.”

Steve McQueen - Tom Horn

“- Strachwitz: What are you doing over here by the wire?
- Hilts 'The Cooler King': Well, like I told Max here, I was trying to get my...
- Von Luger 'The Kommandant': What were you doing by the wire?
- Hilts 'The Cooler King': Well, like I told Max... I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I want to get out.”
Harry Riebauer - Strachwitz
Steve McQueen - Hilts 'The Cooler King'
Hannes Messemer - Von Luger 'The Kommandant'

“- Tom Horn: Listen, why are you hanging around with me?
- Glendolene Kimmel: Because you are a link to the Old West.
- Tom Horn: If you really knew how dirty and raggedy-assed the Old West was, you wouldn't want any part of it.”
Steve McQueen - Tom Horn
Linda Evans - Glendolene Kimmel

“- Tom Horn: Did you get the letter that is telling you to not come around here?
- Lee Mendenhour: I got your fucking letter, champion! I rolled it up in the back with tobacco and smoked it!”
Steve McQueen - Tom Horn
Roy Jenson - Lee Mendenhour

“- Hilts 'The Cooler King': Wait a minute. You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire... and case everything out there... and don't get picked up... to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need?
- Bartlett 'Big X': Yes.”
Steve McQueen - Hilts 'The Cooler King'
Richard Attenborough - Bartlett 'Big X'

“- Von Luger 'The Kommandant': Are all American officers so ill-mannered?
- Hilts 'The Cooler King': Yeah, about 99 percent.
- Von Luger 'The Kommandant': Then perhaps while you are with us you will have a chance to learn some. Ten days isolation, Hilts.
- Hilts 'The Cooler King': Captain Hilts.
- Von Luger 'The Kommandant': Twenty days.
- Hilts...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hannes Messemer - Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
Steve McQueen - Hilts 'The Cooler King'