Steve McQueen Quotes About Racing
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Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
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Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
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Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.
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I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.
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When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
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When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.
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Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.
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I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.
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