Sonny Boy by Al Pacino

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino (2024)
Condition: Like New, The jacket has some slight bends on the corners from the shelf. There is also a faint line down the spine of the book.
978-0-593-65511-5

And then, one night, onstage, just like that, it happened. The power of expression was revealed to me, in a way it never had before. I wasn't even searching for it. That's the beauty of these things. You're not looking for it. I'm opening my mouth and I'm understanding somehow that I can speak.

Words are coming out, and they're the words of Strindberg, but I'm saying them as though they're mine. The world is mine, and my feelings are mine, and they're going beyond the South Bronx. I left the familiar. I became a part of something larger. I found that there was more to me, a feeling that I belonged to a whole world and not just to one place.

I'm thinking to myself, What is this? It feels as though I'm lifting off the ground. I thought, Yes, this is it. It's right there and I can reach out and touch it. This is out there, and this is what I know now is possible. In that moment, I didn't have a worry after that. I eat, I don't eat. I make money, I don't make money. I'm famous, I'm not famous. It didn't mean anything anymore. A door was opening, not to a career, not to success or fortune, but to the living spirit of energy. I had been given this insight into myself, and there was nothing else I could do but say: I want to do this forever.

(Book Description Taken Directly From Back Cover)