Very Inspiring! Awesome speech from Matthew McConaughey on his Oscar win: Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to the Academy for this—all 6,000 members. Thank you to the other nominees. All these performances were impeccable in my opinion. I didnt see a false note anywhere. I want to thank Jean-Marc Vallée, our director. Want to thank Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, who I worked with daily. Theres a few things, about three things to my account that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase. Now, first off, I want to thank God. Cause thats who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand. He has shown me that its a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late Charlie Laughton, who said, When youve got God, you got a friend. And that friend is you. To my family, that who and what I look forward to. To my father who, I know hes up there right now with a big pot of gumbo. Hes got a lemon meringue pie over there. Hes probably in his underwear. And hes got a cold can of Miller Lite and hes dancing right now. To you, Dad, you taught me what it means to be a man. To my mother whos here tonight, who taught me and my two older brothers… demanded that we respect ourselves. And what we in turn learned was that we were then better able to respect others. Thank you for that, Mama. To my wife, Camila, and my kids Levi, Vida and Mr. Stone, the courage and significance you give me every day I go out the door is unparalleled. You are the four people in my life that I want to make the most proud of me. Thank you. And to my hero. Thats who I chase. Now when I was 15 years old, I had a very important person in my life come to me and say whos your hero? And I said, I dont know, I gotta think about that. Give me a couple of weeks. I come back two weeks later, this person comes up and says whos your hero? I said, I thought about it. You know who it is? Its me in 10 years. So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, So, are you a hero? And I was like, not even close. No, no, no. She said, Why? I said, Because my heros me at 35. So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my heros always 10 years away. Im never gonna be my hero. Im not gonna attain that. I know Im not, and thats just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing. So, to any of us, whatever those things are, whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is were chasing, to that I say, Amen. To that I say, Alright, alright, alright. To that I say just keep living. Thank you.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:22:13 +0000