Angie Rossini: Do you want to get married?
Rocky Papasano: I said I would didn't I?
Angie Rossini: That's not what I asked.
Rocky Papasano: Who wants to get married?


--Steve McQueen (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger

Angie Rossini: It seems very funny, putting you together with a family, somehow.
Rocky Papasano: Well, what did you think - I got hatched out of an egg?


--Steve McQueen (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger

Angie Rossini: Would you like a drink?
Rocky Papasano: Thank you
Angie Rossini: Scotch
Rocky Papasano: Thank you
Angie Rossini: [pouring scotch] Water, Soda or Tonic?
Rocky Papasano: [a bit confused] Scotch and Tonic? uh... very good...
[takes the glass from her]
Rocky Papasano: Zelda, Gin and Tonic, yes. Vodka and Tonic, yes. Scotch and Tonic, no.
Angie Rossini: [confused] uh...
Rocky Papasano: water.


--Steve McQueen (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger

Angie Rossini: You better understand something here and now - what we did before, that was something happened - don't ask me how or why. But it's not going to happen again.
Rocky Papasano: Well, why not?
Angie Rossini: [Yelling] Don't you understand? I didn't *know* you then. I didn't *care* about you. But I *know* you now. I *LIKE* you.
Rocky Papasano: Man, I end up with the...
Angie Rossini: [Angrily] Look, why don't you sit down? I invited you to dinner, let's have DINNER.
Rocky Papasano: Tell me something. That cook - that friend of yours in the restaurant business. Do you like him too the way you like me now, or don't you care about him the way you used to not care about me?


--Steve McQueen (as ) in Love with the Proper Stranger

Georgette Thomas: [woken up from Henry's banging] Henry, what's the matter?
Henry Thomas: I dreamt I was back in the pen.


--Steve McQueen (as ) in Baby the Rain Must Fall

Captain Collins: Holman, I'll have you shot as a mutineer!
Jake Holman: Well shoot something!


--Steve McQueen (as Jake Holman) in The Sand Pebbles

[as they ride to the village, Chico is following them]
Vin: Riding out there in all that dust and heat... what a chucklehead.
Chris: Yep. Not smart like us.
Vin: Yep.


--Steve McQueen (as Vin Tanner) in The Magnificent Seven

[Boon giving directions to Ned on how to use the Winton Flyer]
Ned: Boon, when do you think I can have it?
Boon Hoggenbeck: String bean you so much to lay a hand on this automobile, I'll jump down your throat, and tap dance on your lungs!


--Steve McQueen (as ) in The Reivers

[Bullitt and Delgetti have searched the luggage of Dorothy Simmons and her boyfriend]
Delgetti: No passports, no tickets.
Bullitt: Call Immigration in Chicago, have them wire Rennick's passport application, I'll get a fingerprint check on Ross.


--Steve McQueen (as Bullitt) in Bullitt

[Calvera has just captured the Seven]
Calvera: What I don't understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh?
Chris: I wonder myself.
Calvera: No, come on, come on, tell me why.
Vin: It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, "Why?"
Calvera: And?
Vin: He said, "It seemed to be a good idea at the time."


--Steve McQueen (as Vin Tanner) in The Magnificent Seven