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I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman. -- Patrick Fugit
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. -- 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
My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts. -- Christian Kane
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic. -- Donatella Versace
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline. -- Leonard Cohen
When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal. -- Josephine de La Baume
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward. -- John Lasseter
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. -- Martin Freeman
There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different. -- Sarah Burton
Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend. -- Donatella Versace
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. -- Carey Mulligan
In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic. -- Philip Treacy
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them. -- Mark Wahlberg
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Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you. -- Kelly Cutrone
Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent. -- Hamish Bowles
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
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. -- Sheryl Crow
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin. -- Maureen McCormick
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 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
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
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
When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical. -- Joe Manganiello
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I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets. -- Ashley Benson
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
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
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 think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd and least lamented dead genres, the disaster pic of the '70s. It's a little better than 'Earthquake' but not as good as 'The Towering Inferno,' because it doesn't star Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. -- Stephen Hunter
Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.' -- M. C. Gainey
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
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
McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten. -- John Galliano
We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss. -- Anna Wintour
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
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he? -- Orlando Bloom
I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. -- Griffin Dunne
My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin. -- Anne Robinson
I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. -- Naomie Harris
I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. -- Robert Vaughn
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. -- Kevin Whately
A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful. She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman. -- Sarah Burton
Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward. -- John Lasseter
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all. -- Joe Zee
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. -- Michel Hazanavicius
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
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant. -- Pierce Brosnan
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor. -- Patrick Wilson
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.
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me. -- John Varvatos
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 like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. Im more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets. -- Ashley Benson
When you see a woman wearing McQueen, thereâ??s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off. -- Alexander McQueen

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