Cuba Gooding Jr.: 'I love you ... everybody!', Oscars Acceptance speech - 1997

24 March 1997, Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center, Los Angeles, USA

I know I have a little bit of time so I'm gonna rush and say everybody, and you cut away, I won't be mad at you. Tom said don't forget to thank your wife. I will never forget to thank my high school sweetheart and the mother of my children, Spencer and Mason. I love you, Sara. And my parents who are here, Shirley and Cuba the first. And... God, I love you. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father God, for putting me through what you put me through, but I'm here and I'm happy. I just want to... [Music begins to play]. Oh, here we go... Okay, the studio, I love you. And Cameron Crowe and... Tom Cruise! I love you, brother! I love you, man! [Applause starts.] Derek Brose, Shawn Suttles, Keith Butler, all my behind-the-scenes crew. Regina King, I love you! You did a great job when we made the movie! Everybody involved with the movie! [Loud cheering begins.] I love you! Oh my goodness! Here we are! I love you but keep going. [Unintelligible], everybody, I love you! I love you all! Cameron Crowe! James L. Brooks! [Standing ovation begins.] James L. Brooks, I love you! Everybody who's involved with this! I love you! I love you! I love you! ...Everybody involved!

Jacob Tremblay: 'I know where to put this. Right there on the shelf beside my Millennium Falcon' Best Young Performer, Critics Choice Award - 2016

17 June 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA

This is super cool. This is the best day of my life.

I first want to say thank you to all the critics that voted for me. It must be a super hard job with all the other great actors in this category.

I also want to thank Team Room who is Lenny, Emma, Bree, Ed and all the other producers over there.

And all the other cast and crew.

I think that us working together made this movie come true.

And this award doesn't just go to me for that, it goes to all of you guys as well.

I also want to thank my parents and I love them very much.

And I know where to put this. Right on the shelf right beside my Millennium Falcon.

Marlon Brando (read by Sacheen Littlefeather): 'He has asked me to tell you ... that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award' Academy awards - 1973

27 March 1973, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hello. My name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache and I am president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee. I'm representing Marlon Brando this evening and he has asked me to tell you in a very long speech, which I cannot share with you presently because of time but I will be glad to share with the press afterwards, that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award. And the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry – excuse me – and on television in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee. I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this evening and that we will in the future, our hearts and our understandings will meet with love and generosity. Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.

Jeff Douglas: 'My name is Joe, and I am Canadian!!!!', Molson beer commercial - 2000

On air, March 2000. Just in time for the NHL playoffs that year. MoslonCanadian beer commercial

Hey. I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader.

And I don't live in an igloo, or eat blubber, or own a dogsled.

And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice.

I have a Prime Minister, not a President.

I speak English and French, NOT American. and I pronounce it 'ABOUT', NOT 'A BOOT'.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing. DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation, AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.

A TOQUE IS A HAT, A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH, AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!!!

CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS! THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY! AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!

MY NAME IS JOE!! AND I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!!!

Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald): 'it's not just you up there on the screen, there are many other people behind the scenes that you have to carry as well', Logies - 1976

Video from 1.57

12 March 1976, Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

[wild applause]

All the big producers sucking up to me.

it's funny, I had a sort of inkling that this would happen ... y'knnnow, because, y'know ... the ABC sacked me and I figured 'I must be getting the Gold Logie'.

I have written a short speech on it, if you wouldn't mind listening to me for a minute, because we'll be having a comprehension test later on ...

[read] [Breaks down crying] Oh fair dinkum ... fair dinkum ... that's all I had time to write actually .... no no ... when you do do an excellent program like mine, it's not just you up there on the screen, there are many other people behind the scenes that you have to carry as well.

Um, there are so many people that I'd like to mention, but I usually forget their names, and most of them will probably sink without a trace anyway. So ... I ... I would like ...  I would like to thank my mother, for not having the operation, even though dad had said that Mrs Manning had done hundreds of them, and her caravan was terribly hygienic, and also my land lady, Mrs Lewis, for not putting up my rent, even though she knew she could get thirty dollars a week from a refo family, y'know, and that was before they had on apart pension on the means test - wonderful woman. Everyone else had been real poons and wouldn't give me the seam of their cordial, yknow.

One thing, if you wouldn't mind, Bert, excuse me, Mr Newton, if you could, if you could just slip the head into the noose, [slips Logie into neck noose as visible necklace] ... this is just until I get it set into a ring ...

[cries] I'm sorry about crying like this, y'know, it's impregnated with shell tox. And it gives off fly killing vapours for the whole of the award winning year, and they're so strong, y'know [fans face] actually when I'm not wearing it I'll probably slip it around the dogs neck, y'know, and kill the fleas.

Sacha Baron Cohen: 'Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today', Golden Globes - 2007

January 15, 2007, Hollywood, California, USA

This movie was a life-changing experience. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer of course to the anus and testicles of my co-star Ken Davitian.

Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.'

And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: Death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years.

Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today.

Thank you to Larry Charles, thank you to Jay Roach, thank you to Isla Fisher, my fiancee. Thank you to Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer; thank you to Ari Emanuel; Matt Labov; Erran Baron Cohen, my brother who did the music; and to Jason Alper ... And thank you to every American who has not sued me so far. Thank you.

Robert Downey Jnr: 'They needed me! Avatar was going to take us to the cleaners!', Golden Globes - 2010

6 January, 2010, California, USA

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Russell Brand: 'Best TV Performer in a non-acting role ... on Wednesdays', Broadcasting Press Guild Awards - 2007

23 March, 2007, United Kingdom

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Melissa McCarthy: 'Holy smokes!' Emmy awards - 2011

18 September, 2011, Nokia Theatre, LA, USA

Holy Smokes! Wow! It's my first and best pageant ever! Oh my God - there's so many pe- stop that clock! - Uh, there's so many people I want to thank. Oh my God my sweet, lovely husband Ben; I wish you were here; he's not. My lovely sister Margie is here. I'm sorry I'm a crier!

My Mom and Dad who supported me forever and shouldn't have and just said 'keep doing what you're doing.' I'm from Plainville, Illinois and I'm standing here and it's kind of amazing.

I work with the best cast and the best crew and I love them all. And Chuck Laurie fought for me. And Peter Roth you are like a handsome cheerleader in a suit. Nina Tassler, Les Moonves I'm gonna carry you both around tonight for a while.

Um, oh my God our writers - Mark Roberts - writing your beautiful little funny weird plays for us, and the cast I love you all so much. I go to work - I show up early like a dork, everyday because I kinda can't wait to see people. Vivi you can go to bed now. Georgie, I love you. And, oh God I know I'm forgetting somebody, I don't have my list. Anybody I forgot I just want to say thank you. Holy smokes!

Steve Carell: 'I didn't write anything. However, my wife did and handed me something. Um... ', Best Actor, Golden Globes - 2006

16 January, 2006, California, USA

Wow, I, uh, I really did not expect this so I didn't write anything. However, my wife did and handed me something. Um, I'd like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for this great honor. I would also like to thank my wife, Nancy, for her constant support and for being so beautiful tonight. That's true. Thanks also to Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant for creating such a wonderful, ground breaking piece of television and to Greg Daniels for his talent, courage, and sheer audacity. This is good, thank you. Uh, also to my wife, for giving me two wonderful children as painful as her labor might have been. Thanks also to an excellent cast, crew, and writing staff all of whom I am indebted to. If were not for you, I would not be here right now. I don't know about that. Steve Sower, Michelle Bowen, Matt Labog, Holly Berell...Nancy, my precious wife, who put her career on hold in support of mine and who sometimes wishes that I would let her know when I am going to be home late so she can schedule her life which is no less important than mine. To my parents for not making me go to law school. And finally to the love of my life, my wife Nancy. Thank you very much. This is a very great honor.

Dustin Hoffman: 'We are laughed at when we are up here, sometimes, for thanking', Oscar acceptance, 1980

14 April 1980, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, USA

Thank you. [Inspects the Oscar.] He has no genitalia and he's holding a sword. I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

I'm up here with mixed feelings. I've been critical of the Academy, and for reason. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to be able to work. I am greatly honored for being chosen by the producer, Stanley Jaffe, and the director, Bob Benton, and to have worked in a family with them, and with Meryl and with Justin, who if he loses again we'll have to give him a lifetime achievement award. And to Jane Alexander and to Jerry Greenberg and to Néstor and to the crew on the film who was part of that family.

And to the crew and to the directors like Bob Fosse and Mike Nichols and John Schlesinger that I've worked with before.

We are laughed at when we are up here, sometimes, for thanking. But when you work on a film you discover that there are people who are giving that artistic part of themself that goes beyond a paycheck, and they are never up here. And many of them are not members of the Academy, and we never hear of them. But this Oscar is a symbol, I think, and it is given for appreciation from those people whom we never see. They are part of our life.

I refuse to believe that I beat Jack Lemmon, that I beat Al Pacino, that I beat Peter Sellers. I refuse to believe that Robert Duvall lost.

We are a part of an artistic family. There are sixty thousand actors in this Academy – pardon me – in the Screen Actors Guild, and probably a hundred thousand in Equity. And most actors don't work, and a few of us are so lucky to have a chance to work with writing and to work with directing. Because when you're a broke actor you can't write; you can't paint; you have to practice accents while you're driving a taxi cab.

And to that artistic family that strives for excellence, none of you have ever lost and I am proud to share this with you. And I thank you.