Actress Jodie Foster Comes Out — Again — During ‘Rambling’ Golden Globes Speech

Actress Jodie Foster attends the The Weinstein Company’s 2013 Golden Globe Awards after party. Credit: Getty Images for TWC
After receiving the Cecil B. Demille award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes last night, actress Jodie Foster gave what some critics have described as a “rambling” speech — one in which she, once again, came out of the closet. The address, which spanned more than six minutes and tackled a plethora of subject-matter, included accolades to those who have supporter her, complaints about privacy, an admission that she has considered quitting acting and comments about her sexuality.
“Forty-seven years in the film business is a long time,” she proclaimed toward the beginning of her speech, going on to call many of the audience members before her — fellow Hollywood elite — “family of sorts.” Perhaps this admission of comfort with her fellow entertainers is what led Foster to, once again, share some private information, as well as her views on privacy and fame.
As for confidentiality and her personal life, the actress made it clear that she’s not a fan of people peering too intensely into her affairs. To make her point, she even invoked the name of a famed reality show star, noting, “I am not Honey Boo Boo child.” Foster’s point? She’s not interested in displaying every detail of her life for the world to see.
“Privacy — maybe someday in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was,” she proclaimed. “I have given everything out there, from the time I was three years old. That is reality enough.”
However, the actress did shed light on some portions of her life that have been, to date, tabloid fodder. As for her sexuality, Foster made it clear that she is a lesbian. LAist provides a partial transcript of her words:
So while I’m here being all confessional I have the sudden urge to say something I’ve never really been able to air in public… A declaration I’m a little nervous about, but maybe not as nervous as my publicist—hi, Jennifer. Uh, but, you know, I’m gonna put it out there, right? Loud and proud, right? I’m gonna need your support on this. I’m… single.
Yes, I am. I am single. No, I’m kidding. But I’m not really kidding but I’m kind of kidding. I mean, thank you for the enthusiasm. Can I get a wolf whistle or something? [NBC sound cuts out]… coming out speech tonight because I already did my coming out a thousand years ago in the Stone Age. In those very quaint days when a fragile young would open up to trusted friends, family, coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her and actually met. But now apparently I’m told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their personal life with a press conference, fragrance and prime-time reality show. [...]
There is no way I could stand here tonight without acknowledging one of the deepest loves of my life. My heroic co-parent. My ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life, my confessor-ski buddy-consigiliere-most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd. I am so proud of our modern family, our amazing sons, Charlie and Kit who are my reason to breathe and to evolve. … Boys, in case you didn’t know it, this song, like all of this, this song is for you.
Watch the curious speech, below:
LAist notes, though, that this isn’t the first time Foster has expressed that she is a lesbian. In a 2007 speech, she, once again, paid tribute to Cydney Bernard (the woman she referred to as her “ex-partner” in last night’s speech). This morning, her perplexing diatribe is making media rounds, as many continue to analyze and read into her intriguing, yet confusing, words.
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Comments (196)
BrutalTruth
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:02am“I’m so proud of our sons”
And where did they come from?
A liberal’s mind has to be an everlasting whirlwind of contradiction.
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000degrees
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:17pmWho cares…….
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Red Meat
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:08pmThese awards, like the state run media, would be irrelevant if it were not for the nitwits that watch/report on them.
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naughtycal
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:43pmDidn’t she already come out like 30 years ago. Did she revert and then became a born again gay?
If she was already gay and came out years ago can we just assume she’s coming out as an innerspecies erotic…..wtf
More over why would anyone give a crap?
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honeydijon13
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:51pmWhat’s the contradiction?
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:35pmIf you throw a glass of cold water on Jodie Foster while sleeping, she would wake up insisting she was still a lesbian.
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lessoneleg
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 4:25pmIn the “liberal world”, the ongoing attack is to disassociate “fathers” from the children who they co-shared in biologically create. do you hear this BS from all these profound progressives. You’d think they themselves created human beings and if it wasn’t for progressive reasoning, tomorrow could never come.
How dare she comment about “her” version of wonderful. There is NO HUMAN BEING created without a male component with a female component. NONE! And all these lesbian revisionists of human history are trying to convolute humanity into some distorted world of lesbian wonderful where you can obliterate the male component from the creation of another human being.
Well, sorry lesbian progressives. No matter how much bump and grind you exert you ain’t gunna make another child for all the efforts in your wildly steamy nights of bliss. It ain’t gunna happen, tonight or any night. And every child deserves both their fathers and mothers before two mommies, or two daddies. It’s been selected, millions of years ago. No matter what you throw around in research studies.
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armyofnibiru
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:33pmwho cares about this skank,this is nothing more than a bunch of traitors patting each other on the back.why do you think clinton was there.cant get nothing from her.
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toto
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:54pmEpitome of selfish indulgence. Boys should have fathers, period. Boys that grow up being told that fathers are not necessary to their development as an adult male have been robbed. To deliberately deprive them of a REAL father, is terrible. Girls need fathers too. the fact of the matter, is that children should have both a father and a mother, and that should not be a novel concept, but common sense.
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BrutalTruth
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:04pmThat’s right Toto. It’s a real form of child abuse.
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DeniseR55
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 6:47pmShe didn’t even have to come out, I knew. You can tell. I don’t why I knew…..It’s just a feeling. And I don’t don’t think I’m the only one that gets that feeling about a person’s sexual preference.
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Ripped
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:01amShe’s single? No kidding! Why should that come as NO surprise to the rest of the normal world?
Interestingly enough my wife looks like her in her younger years. Thank God that’s where the similarities stop.
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love the kids
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:18amHow about a real shocker, let’s have an actor or actress give a speech once where they actually say that they are straight! I will bet that at least 95% of male actors are gay, and that at least 60 % of female actors are gay, and the ones that aren’t, are just fine with marrying a gay man because it is easier. That’s why they support all of these causes like they do, but to want to preform in front of a camera or on stage is just something that gay folks want to do. I have said this for over 25 years.
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00100111
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:40amShow of hands who cares? No hands? Wow, shocker.
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JQuentinEvermann
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:43amI remember this woman from Silence of the Lambs. Remember? She played a minor role opposite Anthony Hopkins.
But seriously, if these celebrities want privacy, give it to them. You have to go pretty far out of your way to hear or read about anything she has said.
And at the end of the day, who cares what these people think or say? They pretend for a living. Yes, they play dress-up and make-believe for a living.
Unless you’re willing to take political advice from a 5 year old, why would you care what an actor says about anything at all?
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:53amAgain…………..nobody cares.
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SavvyCowboy
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:34amI’m a lesbian too – never had sex with a man, never will either – so that makes me a lesbian. :)
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Mil-Dot
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:12amYawn, another Hollywood pervert. “Next!”
bannedfromCNN
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:24amLiberalism and mental illness (one in the same) on parade…
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yiska8
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:33amSomething’s missing? Lonely Jodie? Living the wrong lifestyle for too long will do that.
She needs a man. Now. A nice, strong conservative one.
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ltb
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:23pmI guess she doesn’t see the irony in telling the world her most intimate secrets and then telling the world she wishes people would respect her privacy. You know what I miss? I miss a world where I didn’t know anything at all about the sexual practices of strangers and when my parents would say a woman was “with child,” because saying “pregnant” was considered too vulgar. Jodie, I don’t care about your sexual preference at all, not one bit, couldn’t care less, none of my business, doesn’t interest me, TMI.
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Oldmantex
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:42pm@LTB You nailed it!! that was exactly what I was thinking. How absolutely moronic can a person be? Speak about something so personal and then complain about privacy. ID10T
This is just more evidence of the over bearing homosexual agenda. Even if you want your privacy, THAT part of your life must be in the public’s face. You must be open about the most private thing you do, to further the cause.
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Bluebonnet
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:44pmI’d be happy if she’d just keep her sex life to herself and not tell us about it. What’s wrong with these people who think they have to confess sexual secrets to the rest of the world?
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JQuentinEvermann
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:54pm@Jody – Pictures or it didn’t happen.
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Unix
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:21pmpfffft, who really cares, just another Hollywierdo! How shocking eh. Yep, she is not normal alright…
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kadster01
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:01amBig whoop! I knew it before she “came out” the first time. It was about as much a shocker as Rosie O’Donnell’s coming out party.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:57amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwuSVJT7zTY
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oneshiner
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:04amAlways though there was something weird about that gal.
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:57amWhy do these Morons in Hollywood think so highly of themselves? Can you imagine if the plumbers all got together and voted themselves awards and televised it? This is utterly ridiculous ! But hey they think they are special and the Simpletons of America keep watching this junk !
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limalima
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:24amSocialistSlayer…I think it would be a hoot if plumbers did that. Or carpenters, or firemen. I’d bet it would be worth watching….genuine entertainment.
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TheePolitinator
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:30amIt’s rumored that Hollweird got the “test” run of a higher dose of fluoride before the sheep did.
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salvawhoray
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:36amI can’t wait the day when people stop going to the movies.
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Yeah_Buddy
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:33amI would cast my vote for Slableakpro.com. Honest, family-run plumbers…best in Orange County, CA.
Repaired my homes water slab leak for a fraction of what other plumbers wanted to charge.
Adds way more value to my family’s life than all Hollywierders combined :) (Plus they are totally not gay)
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cosette
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:37am@Salvawhoray….. I can go one better. I can hardly wait until every movie produced is completely C.G. No more sanctimonious lectures from know nothing, drug addicted, sex obsessed, foul mouthed, depraved, brain dead America haters who have nothing to contribute to our dying culture other than more poison. I hope they all rot in the hell they deny exists, put there by the God they mock!
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Jadedfate
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 2:07pmThis is one thing that I think those that are famous should be vocal about..not the details of their bedroom exploits, but showing people that they shouldn’t fear being who they really are. It’s sad that we force homosexuals to have to lie to others and hide their true selves. Who cares what people do as long as it’s not harmful to others?
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5N4K3Y35
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 3:57pmGood one. That would be quite entertaining if regular working class folks did grandiose award ceremonies and thanked everybody they can think of. “I’d like to thank Bob from the hardware store. He always has the joints and couplings I need. I’d like to thank the makers of Teflon tape, without which, I could not do my job as well as I do it. I’d like to thank my loving wife and kids (dabs away tears, welling in his eyes), I’d like to thank everyone who has ever had to see my hairy **** crack and did not complain. Being a plumber means everything to me… *Throat sob*”
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searching for the Truth
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:56amComing Soon ! ” Sodom and Gomorrah.”
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nicholas1
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:37pmWaste of a life for her and someone she might have made happy and been happy with. If GOD wanted everyone to choose their sex after they were born he would have given everyone a ****** and a penis and let them choose. GOD DOES’T MAKE MISTAKES.
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VanceUppercut
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:39pmOh, you mean the story where God turned a woman into a pillar of salt because she looked back, proving once again that God is a petty a**hole?
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4kidsandacat
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:58pmNO you idiot. Lot’s wife did that to herself. She was told not to look back and she did it anyway. It’s like telling you not to touch a hot stove and you do it anyway. Did I then burn your hand?
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yiska8
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:03pm@vance
No it just meant she couldn’t follow a simple request.
God’s rules are simple. Most of us are too stupid,weak, or willful to honor them.
Atheists are just angry they haven’t found God yet. Just wait. He’ll find you.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 1:37pmThe only display of petty arseholery on display here seems to be yours VANCYBOY.
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:54amIf that is what happens some of the Hollywood crowd, I am glad and happy to be me. God Bless.
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:51amThe long list of child actors, turned freaks, continues to grow. Hollywood screws up so many people, after a while, most of them seem to become disconnected from reality.
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barber2
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:09amWitness Obama. Remember the photos of him in that hat smoking whatever ? Young Obama doing his early Hollywood routine for the camera.
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symphonic
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:27amThis is why it is so important to have good parents to help protect their children. Problem is, some parents are so stupid, seeking for fame through their children, that this throw them out there as a sacrifice for their own self-indulgence and future bragging rights.
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toomuchgovt
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:50amSo Sad that the only way to be relevant in Hollywierd is to be anti christian, anti capitalism, anti american, Why does this any of this have a “shock value”? Hey Jodi, I do believe you already “came out” aren’t you “married with children” to a woman?
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What the Heck
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:50amIs the new protocol when you go to dinner to announce your sexual preference? Should I announce my preference when I go to a show, get a job, attend the theater? Should I announce my marital status or my partner status?
Hello, I’m straight, I’m lesbian, I am ****, I am transgender, or a pedophile I just love kids. I go Bi, or I just like to commit adultery.
How sick. There was a time you did announce your bedroom preferences or wave a flag to draw attention.
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tboltdon
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:02amUnless she is sleeping with me,( she isn’t). Why should I care who is in her bed?
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barber2
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:50amJody was just illustrating the importance of a good script writer – which she isn’t . A bit like the scripted administration which is now ” occupying ” the White House, and whose script writer remains mysteriously behind the scenes , but whose agenda is remarkably familiar to any student of history.
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:58amI believe there are 2 script writers for B.O….Marx and Alinsky…
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barber2
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:07amINDY: And I believe you are correct !
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AvengerK
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:00pmBARBER…she seemed to be performing her acceptance speech. I’m sure she was sincere about she was trying to say, but after watching I can’t shake the notion that she’s “acting” rather than speaking as herself. It was just weird.
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beenaroundyaknow
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:49amShe’s a wonderful actress and an excellent director but she obviously has some deep psychological issues most likely from being abused by the film industry at an early age. Need I say more than Taxi Driver ? Her chickens have come home to roost.
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DJEyeDub
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:41pmAgreed.
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woodyee
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:44amHow can you boycott Hollywierd, when the Blaze helps them promote their frequent episodes of self-aggrandizement?
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SimpleTruths
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:22amSo following your logic…you can’t boycott Hollywood because the Blaze won’t let you?
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floridaborn
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:44amShe sounded to me like she was depressed.
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naughtycal
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:57amMental illness and hmosexuality usually go and hand and hand. It’s why the suicide rate among gays is so much higher that straight people. The psychiatric community did itself a great disservice by removing homosexuality as a mental disorder….I’m not saying gays can’t live normal productive lives just but that doesn’t mean there isn’t amental disease present. My father was an acoholic held down two jobs and took care of his family…. but he still had a disease called addiction….He beat it later in life but for over 30 years he functioned with it until it got really sever then one day he said enough and weened himself off alcohol all by himself. Even got to the point where we could have a glass of wine or a rum and coke and he could stop at one all by himself.
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Cavallo
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:32amPoor poor Hinkley. She just keeps having to rub that in his face.
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fastgen1
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:42am***** boo boo
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:35amOk, you’re all sexually abused by the film industry and in love with yourselves. sick-o-freaks spreading their immorality for all to see. Warning to children…these people are demented and live in a fantasy world and prisoners of their own lusts. Disgustingly selfish and satanic.
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Jarhead 88
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:45amThese idiots are nothing but modern-day court jesters who need to get back to entertaining and shut their pie-holes for anything else. These are nothing but paid liars.
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4kidsandacat
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 12:49pmWhy is that?!? I have never understood why everyone in Hollywood has some sort of trauma in their past. There’s not a single well adjusted person in the bunch!
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searching for the Truth
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:32amMaybe she wants a part in ” Noah Ark.”
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alrunner58
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:30amSince when is a gay celebrity news? I don’t care!
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biohazard23
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:30amAnd this is shocking news because….?
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raabhimself
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:44amI don’t think it is either… Has she even been in a movie recently?
My biggest concern is that Actors have so many awards being dedicated to them… who cares that you were in a movie? You make millions of dollars on those movies… shouldn’t that be appreciation enough?
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biohazard23
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:57amIt would appear that those people can’t get enough attention, awards, or accolades. No matter how much money they make, it must still be a pretty miserable existence if they require constant validation from a bunch of like-minded bubble heads. It’s sad, really.
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raabhimself
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:39am@Biohazard
You know I thought about going into acting in my youth, but didn’t have the self-confidence. In hind-sight, it is probably true for most actors to have a general lacking in self-confidence and believe that living in the lime-light is their only way of gaining it. Generally, what I noticed throughout my stage experiance was that most of the people I was working with at the time, weren’t sports people (there were a couple (very few) and sometimes the popular cheerleader (which a few of us would hit on in our own nerdy ways)) but were the people that weren’t popular in school. Notice that since everybody is getting trophies now for “participation” you don’t see as many young actors out there… I wonder if there is a corelation here…
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Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:24amYea OK Jodie, we get it…you’re a lesbian. Congratulations, now make a movie worth watching.
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:30amHi Gonzo. Long time no hear !
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:38amNailed it on the head Gonzo.
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65Mustang
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:55amLike the others, I have missed you and your posted comments…glad you’re back.
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cdn1979
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:20ami watched the golden globes only during commercial breaks of better shows. By chance, i switched to the GG’s right when her speech started. What the H E double hockey sticks was she talking about? I had no clue what was going on. Why people feel the need to give a lifetime bio when they get an award is beyond me. THey should assume that if they are good enough to get an award, we kinda know who they are. Also, I don’t care about your personal life. You acted in something that got you that award. I don’t like you, i like the characters you play. There should be term limits on acceptance speeches.
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imsteph
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:30amspeeches like hers make you thankful the producers/directors of the oscars are so rude and cute them off with orchestra music!
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DougHuffman
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:20amSnKzzz. Huh, whaaa? Oh, yeah, this is the “Christian” that we sent to make Alien Contact? Doomed! We’re doomed I say.
Will she get her own chapter, morsels long-in-the-toothsome, in the cookbook To Serve Mankind? MOLON LABE
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Kisses6350
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 10:04amWhat?
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scuba13
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:08amDoug, you are not making any sense again. Please don’t drink alcohol before noon.
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RedSpotinaBlueState
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 11:58amTo Serve Man
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What the Heck
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:18amCool, now she can have her next union in the National Cathedral in DC and make us all proud.
She, Rosie, and the rest of them should have a group think up there.
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Red Meat
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:16amWhat a group of shallow commie’s.
Boycott Hollywood. Let them all suffer.
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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:32amI agree. I have not gone to the theater in a very long time. I will not pay to go to the theater and pay to see their garbage. I do not watch any program on TV that stars or written by the evil freaks.
I will not quietly accept this progressive destruction of the morals in our country.
I WILL pray for all of them.
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:14amShe makes me proud to be an AmeriKan !!! Now i’ve got to clean this Vomit off my Keyboard.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:14am.
I turned the channel “Lickety Split”…………..
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 14, 2013 at 8:35amBwahahahahahahahahaha!!
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