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Thank you so much. Yes. Now I have to think. David Hare, I need
your words. I have such appreciation and gratitude for this. Russell
Crowe said, "Don't cry if you get up there." And now I'm
crying. Sorry. Stephen Daldry, you took a huge chance on me. I am
so grateful. David Hare, you gave me magnificent words to say. Scott
Rudin, you fought so hard for this film to get it made. Paramount
and Miramax, you made it. And Kevin Huvane, Rick Nicita, Marc Epstein
stood by me for so many years. And I am just absolutely thrilled
to be standing up here tonight. I do have to say, it was "Why
do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil?"
Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do.
And you want to honor that. And it is a tradition that needs to
be upheld. At the same time you say there is a lot of problems in
the world and since 9/11 there's been a lot of pain, in terms of
families losing people, and now with the war, families losing people.
And God bless them. And I am standing here in front of my mother
and my daughter and my whole life I've wanted to make my mother
proud. And now I want to make my daughter proud. So thank you.
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