Robert Downey Jr. Kills His Acceptance Speech (Video)
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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:
[...] 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
Brilliant!
I’m betting that Delirium and Karlen are sitting next to one another taking turns in typing this nonsense while the other one stares blankly out the window on a farm somewhere remote watching livestock fall in love.
Karlen, you feeling the need to explain sarcasm that everyone in the world “got” made me giggle but Delirium, your defense of her, by stating that people’s time would be better spent saving the planet rather than making negative comments about others on the net while you are on the internet making comments about others takes the cake.
If you two marry, please don’t breed.
I am so confused Karlan.
@karlan got owned. Someone should screencap & post on digg!
Delerium I think the pot might be calling the kettle black. Bahahaahhahahaha
@Delirium
With a statement like that, I hope you never do ANYTHING like watch TV, watch movies, play video games, work out or MAKE COMMENTS ON THE INTERNET (oh wait) while there is stuff to be done for the planet.
Way to be a hypocritical super-douche. Think about how many whales you could’ve saved while you read these comments and posted one of your own.
People are so self-righteous sometimes. It’s ridiculous.
Screw Dick Clark Productions for deleting this video! The fools do not understand the value of free publicity!
Ahh… come on!!! Give the guy a break, ok he ruined his speech for real
but don’t forget that even the biggest guys can sometimes make mistakes! Just because he framed a bad pic it doesn’t mean that he always will do the same as this one…
I need more people to point out that house was based off holmes.
No, the entire House MD series was based on Sherlock Holmes. Also, note the spelling, Holmes.
Karlan is guilty of nothing but of being charmingly innocent in this horrible world. Keep it up Karlan. Just remember that crack, heroin and cocaine are very evil and RDJ agrees with me. Yes not only was his speech great, his performance in Sherlock was magnificent and whether he knows it or not, Robert is one of the world’s greatest living actors despite his substance problem. Although we admire his acting we do not have to imitate his ex-problems.
@Delirium
Oh man, where to even begin. You came here to spend your time lecturing me about replying to someones post just so you could tell me ‘how little of a life’ I have for ‘try[ing] to take a piss at other people’? So what exactly are you even doing with your comment?
I don’t enjoy ‘wasting my energy’ shooting down people, I enjoy -spending- my energy pointing out hilarious irony, as I did in my last comment and this one as well. I am only here because I find it humourous, but why are you here? Unless you perhaps find some sort of humour in creating your own irony, spending as long as I did posting about how I wasted my time instead of ‘saving the world’ by spending 60 seconds recycling my trash.
But I didn’t create any trash while posting, so I could still ‘save the world’ by cleaning up trash after I finish with this post, so I’m not even sure how thats supposed to make me feel… guilty? Is it just that it makes you feel good to ‘take a piss at other people’ such as me, by trash-talking me for doing the same thing as you?
Mirror?
its amazing how people take things so seriously he was being sarcastic isn’t that obvious???
Robert Downey jr. is my all time favorite actor and he knows hes had a hard journey and hes made a great come back and that he didnt do it alone he was kidding calm down everyone liken Karlan said why would he mention people if he had “no one to thank” get over it people
** I love Robert Downey Jr.!!**
Yeah there’s no point in shooting somebody simply for their lacking of observant tendencies. Recycling is not nearly as effective a way of preserving the health of our environment as it is often cracked up to be though.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Tony Stark…….
Jesus if only i had the elequence and charm of Mr. Ducky Jr. God knows i love that guy.
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