Mcqueen Quotes

I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade. ~ Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person. ~ 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. ~ William Friedkin

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me. ~ Alexander McQueen

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created. ~ Sarah Burton

I feel more Scottish than Norman. ~ Alexander McQueen

I've always been attracted to the 'don't follow the rules' type of girl, the rocker girl. I've always been attracted to somebody who you can lose yourself in the moment with. You can hang out with her, and it's like you're the only two people in the room. ~ Steven R. McQueen

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

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid. ~ Steven R. McQueen

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

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies! ~ Butterfly McQueen

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father. ~ Herb Ritts

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

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

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. ~ Alexander McQueen

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else. ~ Steven R. McQueen

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen. ~ Willie Geist

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. ~ Alexander McQueen

Fashion is self confident and fearless. ~ Alexander McQueen

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. ~ Alexander McQueen

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.' ~ Steve McQueen

I cleared my throat and spoke into his kiss. "Sorry, it's been a while."
"You should expect to hear the same thing from me in about five minutes," he murmured.
"Five minutes, huh?"
"I'll make it the best five minutes of your life."
I bit his lip, hard, then released him and looked into those intense blues. "Clock's ticking. ~ Karina Halle

It's a new era in fashion- there are no rules ~ Alexander McQueen

I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well. ~ Steven R. McQueen

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. ~ Butterfly McQueen

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

I would love to maybe shoot a movie or something, but end goals: I just want to play a superhero. I think that would be so much fun. I'm putting that energy into the universe for sure. ~ Steven R. McQueen

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. ~ Brittany Snow

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women. ~ Alexander McQueen

Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont. ~ Steve McQueen

Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard. ~ Robert Piper

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. ~ Steven Rodney McQueen

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it. ~ Alexander McQueen

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

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. ~ George Tillman, Jr.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. ~ Alexander McQueen

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.' ~ Steven R. McQueen

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not. ~ Alexander McQueen

Another scar or two won't ruin my pretty face."
"Right."
"Carlos, are you being polite? That's not why I came here for. I know I'm not Steve McQueen."
"My lady is totally in love with him. Lucky for me he's dead or I'd be in trouble."
I hold up my glas of Jack Daniel's in a toast. "Here's to all the guys better looking than us. May they all die first. ~ Richard Kadrey

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

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. ~ Alexander McQueen

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said. ~ Maureen Callahan

She hit him in the best way, like a rainstorm after five years of drought, healing the parched earth with a gentle touch; and in the worst way,like an unexpected earthquake,leaving dust and debris in her wake. She was, in equal parts, a gift and a natural disaster. Her name was Juniper Jones. ~ Daven McQueen

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting. ~ Steve McQueen

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

The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure. ~ Steven R. McQueen

The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising. ~ Brock Yates

I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know. ~ Steve McQueen

Life is too short to read a bad book ~ Hildie McQueen

It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure. ~ Steven R. McQueen

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. ~ Alexander McQueen

There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting. ~ Steve McQueen

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies. ~ Pierce Brosnan

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. ~ Hamish Bowles

Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked ~ Rod McQueen

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. ~ Alexander McQueen

I'm not big on women looking naive. ~ Alexander McQueen

Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything any more. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing. ~ Sarah Burton

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

Silence fills the sweet walk from the park. Our first encounter buzzing between us in the dark winter night. Holding your hand we know the connection, the special bond that has grown between two souls... ~ Benjamin McQueen

These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn't be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn't conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within. ~ Alexander McQueen

Imagine a perfect world ~ Bruce McQueen

Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him? ~ Steven Rodney McQueen

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution. ~ Alexander McQueen

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things. ~ Alexander McQueen

I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula]. ~ Steven R. McQueen

There can never be an absolutely final translation. ~ Robert McQueen Grant

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections, ~ Alexander McQueen

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. ~ Alexander McQueen

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.' ~ Aimee Mullins

I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood and jokingly I tweeted him saying, 'Hey, let me come play Nightwing for a couple episodes.' And somebody wrote an article about it, so I was like, let's make it happen, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. ~ Steven R. McQueen

When I come home from school, I take my Doc Martens off and put on fake satin mules with the marabou trim, slip into my dressing gown and my movie, and I feel serene. I hold a glass of Coke to my cheek and pretend it is a glass of bourbon and I am in New Orleans. My bedroom door is the doorway onto the street and at night I can't sleep because of the heat and the commotion in this town. So I go down to the river and dance as a man with scars on his face plays an accordion. People clap along and wolf-whistle and I whip my skirt around my thighs, which are long and lean because I barely get a chance to eat, what with all my bourbon and afternoon baths. I dance until my mules get muddy, then I tiptoe home, followed by sailors and men who have hundreds and thousands of dollars playing stud poker. Steve McQueen might be there. I can't remember. I get confused at this point. Too much drink. I'm sure Karl Malden is lurking in the background, gazing at me longingly. I am kind to him because his mother is dying. ~ Emma Forrest

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. ~ Steve McQueen

I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite. ~ Steven R. McQueen

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost. ~ Steven R. McQueen

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that. ~ Steven Rodney McQueen

I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy Angeleno uniform, so to speak. But for my role on 'Suits,' I'm dressed in Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, and Prada almost every day. And therein lies the difference. For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes. ~ Meghan Markle

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper. ~ Alfred Molina

I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful ~ 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 what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time. ~ Steve McQueen

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late. ~ Alexander McQueen

Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting. ~ Steve McQueen

I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. ~ Steven Rodney McQueen

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them. ~ Steven Rodney McQueen

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

People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano. ~ Anna Wintour

I can't ever lose what I just felt." He kissed my cheek. "I'm afraid if I did, I'd come looking for you too. I'm afraid I can relate ... to him. ~ Karina Halle

I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are certain things I can do, but when I'm bad, I stink. There's something about my shaggy dog eyes that makes people think I'm good. I'm not all that good. ~ Steve McQueen

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

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches. ~ Alexander McQueen

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it ~ Alexander McQueen

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 [email protected]. ~ Douglas Coupland

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level. ~ Steve McQueen

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

The U.S. Department of Education changed the education privacy regulations in at least two crucial ways. Firstly, it increased the number of players that could have access to your child's centralized personal data to include, not just your child's teachers, but any organization or group tangentially involved in your child's education. This can include testing, technology, textbook, and research companies, just to name a few examples. Secondly, it no longer requires parent notification or permission when it shares your child's personal data with these chosen groups or companies. ~ Brad McQueen

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way. ~ Alexander McQueen

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows. ~ Alexander McQueen

I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head. ~ Alexander McQueen

A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful.
She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman. ~ Sarah Burton

I'm not interested in being liked. ~ Alexander McQueen