Jake Holman: I was home. What happened? What the hell happened?


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

Lt. Fergie Howard: Any girl that would double-cross her own father, that's my kind of woman.


--Steve McQueen (as ) in The Honeymoon Machine

Lt. Fergie Howard: Beau'll join you as soon as he gets into his civvies.
Lt. Beau Gilliam: My civvies?
Lt. Fergie Howard: You brought 'em, didn't ya?
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Yeah. But I won't wear 'em, Fergie.
Lt. Fergie Howard: I beg your pardon?
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Well you saw the duty board this morning. We were specifically ordered to wear whites. Any officer caught ashore in his civvies is gonna have his tail in a sling. And the order was signed by Admiral Fitch himself.
Lt. Fergie Howard: Old Foghorn.
Jason Eldridge: Fergie, we agreed not to break any regulations we didn't have to.
Lt. Fergie Howard: Uh huh. But we have to. We can't get into the casino in Navy uniforms. It's off limits.
Lt. Beau Gilliam: Off limits? And in civvies too? I'll be breaking two regulations at once!
Lt. Fergie Howard: That's right, it's sort of a package deal. Now get in there and get out of that uniform and that's an order, Lieutenant *junior* grade Gilliam!


--Steve McQueen (as ) in The Honeymoon Machine

Lt. Fergie Howard: Just because a fellow makes a small killing at roulette does not mean you have to stick your claws into him.


--Steve McQueen (as ) in The Honeymoon Machine

Nevada Smith: [to Fitch] You're just not worth killing.


--Steve McQueen (as Nevada Smith / Max Sand / Fitch) in Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith: Jesse!
Jesse Coe: [Jesse pretends he doesn't hear and keeps dealing cards] Any cards, boys?
Nevada Smith: You, dealing cards.
Jesse Coe: Jesse who?
Nevada Smith: Jesse Coward! Jesse Murderer! Woman-killer!
Jesse Coe: Now wait a minute, my name is Jack Langley.
Nevada Smith: When you killed my mother and father, it was Jesse.


--Steve McQueen (as Nevada Smith / Max Sand / Fitch) in Nevada Smith

Rocky Papasano: [about family] That's what makes it rough - when they love you.


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

Rocky Papasano: [lying on the couch] oh, look how surprised she sounds?
[starts pulling Angie towards him]
Angie Rossini: What are you doing? as if I didn't know...
Rocky Papasano: Come here Louis
Angie Rossini: Louis?
Rocky Papasano: got a new kind of experiment


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

Rocky Papasano: [on Angie's sexy dress] Man, do you look wild.
Angie Rossini: Thank you.
Rocky Papasano: No, I mean it - I really mean it.
Angie Rossini: Look how surprised he sounds.
Rocky Papasano: You look so - what am I gonna tell 'ya? You look like a woman.
Angie Rossini: How can you manage to make even a compliment sound like a slap in the face?
Rocky Papasano: What did I say? You look like a woman! I apologise - excuse me. You look like a man.


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

Rocky Papasano: [to a priest] Is there *any* way you can make a person get married if they don't wanna? There must be a law or *something*.


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