Jean Jean

“...so sue me. Shoot bullets through me. You can't do anything different in this town. I learned a little, forgot a little, and moved on. No use crying over spilt Shakespeare.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“A New Yorker anywhere outside of New York is an alien.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“I have always liked women, but from the time I was very young, I have been shy around them. I don’t woo them. I don’t pursue them. Women either respond to you or they don’t, and if they don’t make the first move toward me, I am a bit reluctant to try again. But with Diane this time things were different. We always had a connection. She understood my read on things, and it felt comforting to have someone who got me. So I went after her. We hung out together, and after a couple of months we decided to get together. We found a tempo and a temperature that was right.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“It was threatening. Brando had become part of a triumvirate of actors, along with Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Clift had the beauty and the soul, the vulnerability. Dean was like a sonnet, compact and economical, able to do so much with the merest gesture or nuance. And if Dean was a sonnet, then Brando was an epic poem. He had the looks. He had the charisma. He had the talent.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir