2 March 2014, Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Thank you -- all of
these performances were impeccable. In my opinion I didn't see a
false note anywhere. I want to thank Jean-Marc Vallee our director.
I want to thank Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner who I worked with
daily.
There are three things that I need each day. One, I need
something to look up to, another to look forward to, and another is
someone to chase.
First off, I want to thank God because that's who I look up.
He's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my
hand or of any other hand. He's shown me that it's a scientific
fact that gratitude reciprocates.
To my family is to what I look forward to. To my father who I
know is up there right now with a big pot of gumbo, he has a big
lemon meringue pie over there. He's probably in his underwear and
has a big can of Miller Lite and he's dancing right now. To you
dad, you taught me how to be a man.
To my mother who's here tonight, who taught me and my two older
brothers -- demanded -- that we respect ourselves. And in turn we
learned we were better able to learn how to respect others. Thank
you for that mama.
To my wife, Camilla, and my kids Levi, Vida and Mr Stone
(Livingstone), the courage you give me every time I walk through
the door is unparallelled. You are the four people in my life that
I want to make the most proud of me. Thank you.
And to my hero. That's who I chase. When I was 15 years old I
had a very important person in my life come and ask me 'Who's your
hero?' I said, 'I thought about it and it's me in ten years. So I
turned 25 ten years later and that same person comes to me and
goes, 'Are you a hero?' I said, 'Not even close!' She said why and
I said, 'My hero is me at 35.' You see, every day, and every week,
and every month, and every year of my life, my hero is always ten
years away. I'm never going to be my hero. I'm not going to obtain
that and that's fine with me because it keeps me with somebody to
keep on chasing.
So to any of us, whatever those things are and whatever it is
we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to and whoever it is
we're chasing, to that I say Amen. To that I say alright, alright,
alright. And just keep living, huh? Thank you.