I love quotes. So instead of checking out who wore who, I was more interested in who said what as I watched the Golden Globes last night. Of course, I was curious to see who won what. There was no major sweep, but Avatar took the two most coveted ones, Best Picture and Best Director. And then there were the unexpected ones. For a list of the winners, you can click here to go to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s official website.
But here are the quotes of the night that I find most interesting. Among all of Ricky Gervais’ jokes, prepared and improvised, which can be dismissed the next minute, this one seems to have a stronger aftertaste. When introducing the Best Screenplay Award, referring to what’s more important, he quipped, “It’s not the words but how good you look when saying them.”
And for the winner of that writing award, I’m glad to see Up In The Air get to bring home the Globe, shared by both Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, in their adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel. Montreal born Reitman delivered an endearing speech, giving credits to the most important people in his life. “… people like how I write women. I can never write women who wasn’t for my wife. You are the fuel to my creative fire, Michelle.”
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And to his parents, director Ivan Reitman and actress Genevieve Robert, he left with these words: “… you taught me how to be the man I am… to be the storyteller that I am. I love you. I thank you for everything.” I think his films show his parents had done a pretty good job.
Meryl Streep won the Best Actress Globe for a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, for her role as Julia Child in Julie and Julia. She started off with this most interesting line: “I just want to say that in my long career, I’ve played so many extraordinary women, I’m being mistaken for one.”
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Remembering her mother, who was not unlike Julia Child, Streep noted her ‘joy in living’. And if she ever needed a new image, she wished to be called ‘T-Bone Streep’. Ah… the power of Julia Child.
And then there’s this line from Robert Downey Jr., who won the Best Actor Award, Comedy or Musical, for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, quoting Arthur Conan Doyle:
“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”
Of course he was just joking when he said: “I don’t have anybody to thank.” But besides the people he did mention, he forgot Sherlock himself.
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The most thought-provoking speech of the night comes from Martin Scorsese, who received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his contribution as an iconic filmmaker. He quoted William Faulkner’s words:
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
I like his perspective in acknowledging that they are all living history, continuing and in debt to the works of pioneers and pathfinders in filmmaking. “We’re all walking in their footsteps everyday, all of us.” Herein lies humility, a most apt reminder for all in attendance at the glitzy Beverly Hilton ballroom.
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