Mcqueen Quotes - Page 2

• I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Thinking, Ice

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• The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney... John Garfield... Robert Ryan... Steve McQueen... James Caan... Those are my fondest memories.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Memories, Dad, Hard Times

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Japan, Brain

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• 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 SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, People, Wire

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Movie Love, Goes On, Lists

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The McQueen woman doesn't want to feel casual. It's not that kind of world. When you put on the clothes, they make you stand differently, feel differently. It was about how to do that but make it feel light. I've always been part of Lee's romantic side, that's what I love.

  Sarah Burton

  Light, Clothes, World

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• I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

  Sarah Burton

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Believe, Creativity, Mean

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• When I arrived here at Givenchy, there was a lot of confusion. Before me, there had been some great geniuses - John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are great masters. They marked history. But when I came in after Julien Macdonald, it was also a bit of a mess, because not even I could understand what the true identity of Givenchy was. Everyone thinks that it's only Audrey Hepburn, but there is a whole other world behind it.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Thinking, Confusion, Identity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Fashion, Inspiration, Perspective

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• I was cast last minute for Casino Royale. They asked me to fly to Prague. I liked the script very much. I flew to Prague and did a bit of an audition. I was really focused and stressed out. And Daniel Craig was there. He was very, very blonde, like a Steve McQueen. He's moving a lot in real life. He's quite nervous. He was very lovely, very patient, and really connecting with me when we did the screen test.

  Eva Green

  Real, Moving, Lovely

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I get to wear Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen and crazy stuff, but of course, my mom would never in a million years let me buy that. She won't even let me buy my own pair of skis!

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Crazy, Let Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

  Christian Kane

  Actors, My Favorite

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• The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

  Alexander McQueen

  Mistake, Twenties, Fifty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fashion, Today, Passed Away

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• Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Book, Grateful, Men

  "'Dallas Buyers Club,' 'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' score top Oscar nominations" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

  Hamish Bowles

  Historical, Saint, Pieces

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• My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

  Michael Kors

  Mother, Icons, Design

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• With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?

  Sarah Burton

  Creativity, House, Important

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• Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got Hugh Grant, which is great. But where's this crossover, this blue collar guy who is cool? Where is our James Dean? Where is our John Travolta and Steve McQueen?

  Ricky Gervais

  Blue, Guy, Jason

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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

  Landscape, Week, I Realized

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Growing Up, Spring, Hero

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Character, Giving

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• I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

  Martin Freeman

  Style, Looks, Jazz

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