Robert Downey Jr. Kills His Acceptance Speech (Video)
Robert Downey Jr. put on an absolute clinic on how to accept an award you have no business winning tonight when he won Best Actor – Comedy/Musical at the Golden Globes (for Sherlock Holmes). He defused the situation immediately and kinda made a joke out of his win, even mentioning that a family member told him Matt Damon was going to win for sure. He took his typical swashbuckling swagger to the stage, flung the announcement card with his name on it into the air and ripped into a classic speech. While Drew Barrymore was an absolute wreck up there, Downey was the epitome of cool. Maybe he should host next year’s Golden Globes?
Here are some of the better quotes from his speech…
“If you start playing violins, I will tear this joint apart.
“I don’t have anybody to thank.
“Certainly not gonna thank Warner Bros…they need me, Avatar was going to take us to the cleaners. If they didn’t have me,they didn’t have a shot, buddy.
“What am I gonna do? Thank Joel Silver, the guy who’s only re-started my career 12 times since it began it 25 years ago?”
Here’s a video of the entire speech:
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[...] Again, I have zero problem with Downey. He’s one of my favorite actors working today and was jolly good fun as Sherlock Holmes. Was he better than Joseph Gordon-Levitt in (500) Days of Summer? No. Hell, I think Matt Damon deserved it more than Bob. However, he did deliver a killer acceptance speech. [...]
Okay, just one thing.
Robert Downey, Jr. was being completely sarcastic when he said he had no one to thank.
Otherwise he would not have stated names and stupid reasons.
“Im not gonna thank WB, they needed me!” Yeah, except they didn’t, and he knows that. If screenwriters wrote parts actor-specific (and don’t get me wrong, they obviously do…sometimes) there would be no such thing as a starving artist, because the people who aren’t getting parts would likely not stay actors for long.
“What am I gonna do? Thank Joel Silver, the guy who’s only re-started my career 12 times since it began it 25 years ago?” Don’t you think he knows that his career is owed to Joel Silver?
If Silver wouldn’t have “re-started” his “career 12 times”, RDJ would not be on that stage speaking at one of the most prestigious movie awards ceremonies. And he’s completely aware of that fact.
It’s RDJ’s stand-offish humor that threw whoever posted this article off.
In my opinion, he had one of the best speeches
He made people laugh while thanking the people who needed thanking.
(i.e.:Warner Brothers for putting his white ass in a movie, Joel Silver for “re-starting” his career, and his wife for supporting him through it all).
@Karlan Morrison
Your comment is hilariously ironic. You made a long list of reasons why Downey Jr’s performance was good as a rebuttal to the article, stating that ‘whoever posted this article’ was ‘[thrown] off’ by the tone of the speech and missed his intention, and yet you seem to have somehow completely missed the posters intention in this article, thus facilitating the need for your comment? The poster clearly states that Downey’s speech was an ‘absolute clinic on how to accept an award’ and that it was a ‘classic speech’, thus clearly understanding the irony of Downey’s statements on stage.
Perhaps it is you who missed the sarcastic nature of modern ‘reverse-meaning’ slang such as “kills”, as used in the title of this post?
He gave a great commentary and should be upheld for this and not slammed!
Karlen Morrison pwned by Klaus
I bet she wont get this either.
Thank you Karlan for stating the obvious and repeating the whole speech to us
Wow. I’m amazed by how little of a life people who try to take a piss at other people on the internet really are. Do you enjoy wasting your energy to shoot down Karlan while you could potentially be, oh, I don’t know. Recycling your trash and saving the world?
think you