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Despite a film career that commanded top dollar in Hollywood and a year marriage to Neile Adams and two kids, McQueen was restless. My mom died when she was 50, my dad died when he was 50, and I'm going to die when I'm That means I've got 10 years to live it up.
McQueen did, in fact, die 10 years later from cancer at age We've seen Paul Newman get older and die, and there's no intrigue with those people. We saw how their lives played out.
What would he have done? Would he have retired from the industry? Would he have done just smaller parts? Would he have continued to make big films?
And McQueen does not look like a guy from the '60s. He looks like a guy that could step out of the screen today and walk on the street, and he would fit in because his look was so timeless and cool. That's the other thing is the cool factor. They always say cool is forever. That just seems to transcend generations. Terrill recently released a new book, Steve McQueen: In His Own Words , containing photographs and written as if the actor did it himself by using a collection of more than quotes from interviews, published articles, personal letters, and audiotapes.
I started seeing a lot of these other McQueen books that would come out one or two a year, and they would just be retreads of the same old information. I kept thinking, "Wouldn't it be interesting if Steve McQueen were allowed to tell his story in his own way, strictly in his own words with no biographer doing the narrative, and just allowing the reader to take in his words and read these quotes chronologically as he said them so that they could get a better insight into the man?
Where did you pull the quotes from, and which McQueen quotes resonated with you? The sources came from every place. I've done so much research on him, and I've just collected it over the years, and I put it away in boxes.
What I did was I underlined every quote that I ever came across. Then I started typing it in and putting it together in a way that made sense. The first quote appeals to the journalist in me. The quote is, "There's nothing in the world I don't want to know. He said, "I want to learn every aspect of this film industry. He would study how the editor would cut films. He studied the distribution end so that he could get the best deal possible for himself.
That quote comes from that reference. I just love that idea that he wasn't a guy that was just going to be an actor, and then just tell his agent to get him the best deal possible. He wanted to know how everything worked. The second quote appeals to the cynic in me. A reporter asked him, "What has success done for you? I seem to have a lot more friends. There was a touch of cynicism with him because he was always wondering what people wanted from him and why they made such a fuss over him, because he was a kid out of reform school.
Now he's in Hollywood and everybody wants to powder his nose, and it made him very, very paranoid. You said you looked at thousands of photos.
Did any of them catch you by surprise or were hard to find? The one that sticks out in my mind is of Slater, Missouri, and it's of the circus. When he first ran away, Steve McQueen ran away with the circus. I always thought that was a bit of mythology. When I did my book on Steve McQueen: The Life of the Legend in , I actually interviewed somebody who said the circus had boxing matches, and he said, "I saw Steve watch the boxing matches, and I wanted him go into the canvas ring, and then go to the other side, and then start talking to somebody with the circus.
He came to Palm Springs in , like many stars did back then just to unwind, drink beer, and ride motorcycles. His first house was at, I think it's Grace Circle. There's a funny story about that.
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