Prepare Your Acceptance Speech Today
Do you care when people make public declarations of thankfulness to individuals you have never known or met? I certainly don’t.
There’s always the ridiculous shout out to God; like he gives a f*ck you just won a gold statue or stole a base. But that’s tired soil. Instead, let’s talk about the movies, books and speeches that rattle off a laundry list of names.
Authors often like to kick off their books with a shout out.
“For Dorothy”
or
“To my loving parents…”
Fair enough. It’s the award speeches that suck the most. We don’t care about your lawyer, agent of make-up artist. And I highly doubt these professional adults care whether or not you include them in your thank you speech.
Living members of society are desperate for a pat on the back, but these speeches are just too much.
There’s an amazing, supportive and loyal group of people behind every individual. They are there to help guide and support you towards success. We highly doubt they’re in it for the four-second thank you.
I know this seems like a rant against a nice gesture, but long speeches destroy every awards show. Perhaps acting 101 should included studies on managing your acceptance speech time.
“I never expected to win.”
Yeah, whatever. Just unfold the scrap of paper and let’s get on with it. I’m sure when you chose the creative arts as a field you never envisioned this moment. It might not be your driving force, but let’s be honest, the thought has crossed your mind before.
I’ll probably never win an award in front of millions of viewers, but if it’s in the cards, you can rest assured that I’m prepared. Give me 10 seconds to seal the deal.
If you haven’t practiced yet, what are you waiting for? Get that acceptance speech ready today! We’ll thank you tomorrow.
Well, for one thing, it’s them who won and it’s not you. It’s their limelight, and you’re not forced anyhow to listen to their speech. It’s an emotion thing, you’d understand if you won something. The people they mention may not be important to you but they feel that these people formed part of the reason why they won.
Plus about God how sure are you he doesn’t give a f*ck?
Antoinette Chua said this on January 15, 2009 11:19 am
Fair enough. I do have control over the mute button. But you’re telling me that the “shock” of winning is genuine and the ill-prepared speeches are acceptable. And God might actually care, maybe he’s so distracted with awards shows that he doesn’t have time for war, poverty or hunger? That could help explain the state of the world today.
Andrew G.R. said this on January 15, 2009 9:34 pm