Steve McQueen Quotes

Steve Andrews How do you get people to protect themselves from something they don't believe in?

Vin We deal in lead, friend.

Vin The reason I understand your problem so well is that I walked into the same trap myself. Yeah. First day we got here I started thinking, maybe I could put my gun away. Settle down, get a little land, raise some cattle. The things these people know about me would work to my credit, it wouldn't work against me. I... just didn't want you to think you were the only sucker in town.

Steve Andrews CO2 ... It's cold! That's why it didn't come in the ice box after us, it can't stand cold!

Vin Reminds me of that fella back home who fell off a ten-story building. As he was falling, people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Heh, so far, so good.

Vin You don't happen to have an older, grateful sister, do you?

Steve Andrews Dad, it isn't vandalism! Doctor Hallen is dead, and he was killed by some sort of a monster! Now, I know because I saw it, Dad.

Vin I never rode shotgun on a hearse before. Gettin up there don't bother me. It's stayin up there that I mind.

Vin You know, I've been in some towns where the girls weren't very pretty. Matter of fact, I've been in some towns where they were downright ugly. But this is the first time I've ever been in a town where there are no girls at all — cept little ones.

Vin I took a job in a grocery store. Fella says I'll make a crackerjack clerk. Crackerjack.

Vin Fella I once knew in El Paso, one day he took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him the same question, why? He said it seemed to be a good idea at the time.