Steve McQueen Quotes

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won't be trying to be play everyday. There's only one Cal Ripken, one Lou Gehrig and one Joe DiMaggio. What is good for them isn't necessarily good for Eric Davis.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

It is an honor that I have neither earned nor deserved

Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

I'm just not self-deprecating.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

I'm not really the cool dude at all.

I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.