When Emma Thompson Pretended To Be Jane Austen

[AndreanaraMV]

This is like the best speech ever!!

[latindancer4ever]

Fabulous Miss Thompkinson!

[BrionyMae]

Emma Thompson is amazing

[EmmyNeander]

Oh god, I love her so much!

[ZeskoWhirligan]

I've always wanted to fuck Emma Thompson, in my own way.

[DABIGRAGU1]

@ZeskoWhirligan You're this hard up for attention you have to announce you're a total loser on YT?

It's not our problem you were sexually abused as a child. "Flag for Spam" what a moron.

[SaintDufus]

Absolutely brilliant!

It seems to me the overall intelligence level of British actors is generally somewhat above that of their counterparts on this side of the Pond.

[javajunkie101]

You got to love Emma. She is brilliant.

[leevictoria4]

I've never heard seen that speech before now- stupendous!!!

[TheRjjrjjr]

Completely enjoyable and entertaining. I watched this several times in a row. . . Emma Thompson is a major hottie!!!! WooHoo!

[clydebear]

Whatever hair lacquer she uses I hope she's moved on to a new one now.

[MrHatmandoo]

AWESOME.

[veritas0290]

If only every actor/actress gave acceptance speeches like this, awards ceremonies would be abundantly more enjoyable!!!!

[chilikun]

She's the most intelligent actress. She has such wisdom and elegant style. Love her. Love Jane Austen

[Minty210]

That speech is proof of why she deserved that award!

[jferkfjkj]

classiest speech and classiest woman EVER

[LoveSmerch]

I genuinely want to be her when I grow up..

[Francesko263]

This woman is really amazing. Witty, intelligent, beautiful, classy and funny.

[scottadler]

She is sadly missed...

: - ((

[korming]

@scottadler I do hope you mean Jane Austen by that comment, because Emma Thompson is still very much among the living, even if seemingly retired from the movies (Nanny McPhee does not count as one, obviously).

[scottadler]

@korming OOOOOOOOPS! I did it again. Sorry about that. I confused her with the late Natasha Richardson. I may be an infamous know-it-all, and do, in fact, seem to know everything, but I also tend to jumble things up on occasion. On the other hand, she has certain political ideas in common with Richardson's mother. Perhaps that is what confused me.

[lilchanteuse]

@scottadler Why? She's still around.

[OneHindo]

now THAT's a speech!

[UKxxSophiiiexxUK]

Awesome-sauce :)

[thebarstool]

Such a good speech!! It's a shame she had to waste it at the Golden Globes.

[blkchk]

Love Emma Thompson.

[skyetonga15]

brilliance!

[amusingseth]

emma thompson rocks!

[dany79v]

Oh LoL - this is absolutely hilarious :D

Watched the film yesterday to honour aunt J's birthday but had completely forgotten all this!

[wasylowskir]

What an elegant, funny wonderful woman!!!

[pibeagles]

What a wonderful use of the word "whoiden"!!! Nobody uses it anymore, which is a shame, because not only is it a wonderful word, but it's a lot of fun to say!

[meupnlbc]

@pibeagles agreed.. however, it's spelled "hoyden!"

[Basra2020]

puking

[Tigerlily21]

@Basra2020 what? why?

[LittlPussi]

Exactly the problem with Jane Austen: Emma Thompson can do her better than she can do it herself. Jane is dead, long live Emma!

[EdgyXD]

Loved it, brilliant, hilarious, love Emma Thompson!!

[Grotok]

who is emma thompson?

[linnkristin94]

@Grotok probably the one you searched for to get here!

[WeeeWriter]

Witty.

[claus1225]

classical chinese and english are two of the most beautiful languages known.

too bad we don't speak this way anymore

we are better in science but worse in language

[cwv710]

Jodie Foster was also shown. She's a Yale graduate and I'm pretty sure she knows who Jane Austen is.

[Tigerlily21]

@cwv710 and she graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a literature degree. How could she be confused. Oh you English are sooo superior aren't you?

[NeverGetOld2009]

@cwv710 Yeah, Yale Lit grad and D.F.A.

[Amalekites]

and that annoying hair.. pretty much getting in the way ;)

She's great!

[mikomiko321]

i love emma thompson!

[jyzhang88]

oh all the confused American actresses...

[160p2GHz]

@jyzhang88

What on Earth are you talking about? Why would they be confused? It's not as if we don't read Austen in the U.S.

If you're attempting to refer to someone in the audience, the only two people I recognized who they showed at great length were Nicole Kidman who is Australian and Jane Seymour who is English. Regardless, none of them looked confused. Seymour looked a little stiff if anything.

[Jessica0709]

Absolutely fantastic!

[ArcadianQueen]

One of the great moments of the Golden Globes ever.

Emma!!!

[shipwrek33]

amazing



[iGetBackSmacked]

wow i thought it said emma watson. . . damit, waste of time : (

[narayandivya88]

@iGetBackSmacked it's not a waste of time, you know...

emma watson herself has said that she idolises emma thompson, and they get along fantastically well...both of them even share their birthdays too, which is quite a coincidence (Watson was born on 15 April 1990 and Ms. Thompson was born on 15 April 1959)

[iGetBackSmacked]

@narayandivya88 i just read your post, and thank you also for wasting my time.

[narayandivya88]

@iGetBackSmacked are you rude to everybody???

if you think others' replying to your post is a waste of time, then why do you even bother posting messages??

[iGetBackSmacked]

@narayandivya88 sorry i was drunk both times i replied, my apologies

[iGetBackSmacked]

wow i thought it saud emma watson. . . damit, waste of time : (

[Ballettomane]

Genius!!

[kateclaudia]

And I thought the woman who plays Trelawney couldn't get any cooler? I THOUGHT WRONG!!

[swetergrl91]

All are wannabes who are not Emma Thompson!

[sheldeen1001]

You know what I loved about this?? She must have known she was gonna win if she took the time to think out that speech. WOW!

<3

[saehee426]

OMG. she looks like Jessica Biel here. Or probably more accurate to say that Jessica Biel looks like her.

[gladdenopjfqk]

She is Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and as Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father.

[wenglishsal]

Brilliant speech... but does anyone out there know what 'nefarious' means???? I think it must be a condisending term that 'Miss Austen' may have used but I would love to know it's true meaning... lol :0)x

[PinkCarnationProDux]

@wenglishsal It's like...overly wicked.

[wenglishsal]

@PinkCarnationProDux ... Ahh ha , like super naughty or something of that kind... got it, thank you most graciously for you reply mi'lady, I am a happy madam now... :0)x

[trilingual28]

@wenglishsal Hey welsh cutie :0) Nefarious means sketchy...shady...

[wenglishsal]

@trilingual28 ... Many thanks for educating me... I must use 'nefarious' in my book somewhere, it is outstanding in it's totality... Hee hee :0)x

[futurefighter2008]

There are two dislikes! These two people have to be deaf, blind and stupid to dislike this!

[TheNepenther]

She's a keeper. We'll have Emma for a while.

[BloodofPatriots]

@PatsyBailey The best acceptance speech of all time was Joe Pesci's Oscar acceptance: Thank you, it's my pleasure (then he walked right off the stage). The show was dead air for a few seconds and everyone sat there stunned. However, I would put this speech at a very close second-place.

[Blacknarcissa]

This, all of Hugh Laurie's speeches.. and Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat speech at the Golden Globes are the funniest speeches ever in my opinion. And they're all British. xD

[aboutababauta]

not only is emma thompson utterly fantastic, by she absolutely nailed jane austen's STYLE. good lord, she is simply a genius.

[Gebarama]

This among many other reasons is why I love Emma Thompson!

[JaneyMcLaney]

@scottadler I think you are thinking of Natasha Richardson. They look very similar, but yes, Ms Richardson's loss to the acting world was tragic... Thank goodness though Ms. Thompson is still with us.

[Guinnie]

she needs some dippity doo for dat hair

[scottadler]

Marvelous. Her loss was so tragic.

[CreamingSoda33]

@scottadler she's not dead...?

[Dselvagg]

Emma Thompson is so creatively amazing...one of my favorite actresses and now one of my favorite people in general. :-)

[MichelleVasquez55]

Very creative acceptance speech. Love you, Emma Thompson!

[lamestguyintown]

Britain kicks america in the teeth and america says thank you.

[hihosilverlining2]

Nicole Kidman looks beautiful.

Emma Thompson is an excellent actress.

[msymsed]

TOTALLY brilliant!  She is just SO good!

[psychoanalyst]

awesome speech. :D

[danger689]

wickedly brilliant!

[rona316]

She is so charming!

[countermandjidg]

hompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End.

[cmdavis1976]

i love, love, love this! I have never forgotten how awesome this was!

[americuxa]

can someone write what emma says is that i speak spanish and i understand english but sometimes she talks too fast and do not understand some parts of her incredible speech .................

thank you bye bye <3<3<3

[futurefighter2008]

@americuxa

Thank you very much. Good Heavens. Um, I can't thank you enough, Hollywood Foreign Press, for honouring me in this capacity. I don't wish to burden you with my debts, which are heavy and numerous but, um, I think that everybody involved in the making of this film knows that we owe all our pride and all our joy to the genius of Jane Austen. And, um, it occurred to me to wonder how she would react to an evening like this... This is what I came up with.

[futurefighter2008]

Four a.m., having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding was not without its pleasures. Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children. The gowns were middling. There was a good deal of shouting and behaviour verging on the profligate, however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintances.

[futurefighter2008]

here was Lindsay Doran of Mirage, wherever that might be, who's largely responsible for my presence here, an enchanting companion about whom too much good cannot be said. Mr. Ang Lee, of foreign extraction, who most unexpectedly appeared to understand me better than I understand myself. Mr. James Shamis, a most copiously erudite person and Miss Kate Winslet, beautiful in both countenance and spirit.

[futurefighter2008]

Mr. Pat Doyle, a composer and a Scot, who displayed the kind of wild behaviour one has learned to expect from that race. Mr. Mark Kenton, an energetic person with a ready smile who, as I understand it, owes me a great deal of money. [Breaks character, smiles] TRUE!! [back in character] Miss Lisa Henson of Columbia, a lovely girl and Mr. Garrett Wiggin, a lovely boy.

[futurefighter2008]

I attempted to converse with Mr. Sydney Pollack, but his charms and wisdom are so generally pleasing, that it proved impossible to get within ten feet of him. The room was full of interesting activity until 11 p.m. when it emptied rather suddenly. The lateness of the hour is due, therefore, not to the dance, but to the waiting in a long line for a horseless carriage of unconscionable size. The modern world has clearly done nothing for transport.

[futurefighter2008]

P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature! Thank you.

[helendqueen]

@futurefighter2008 thank you for the text. really appreciated

[helendqueen]

@futurefighter2008 Thank you very much for writing the speech down. For an non-English speaker it's a great help

[futurefighter2008]

@helendqueen

my pleasure :)

[injaley]

@futurefighter2008

1st ~ Great job on the transcript. I know it takes a lot of work, especially with youtube limiting you to a certain number of characters, because I've often provided transcripts of tv serials.

2nd ~ Who is Emily Thompkinson? I couldn't find anything on google on her. Is Emma Thompson referring to herself in cheek and changing her name to that of Emily? I think that must be it. It makes sense to me because she would not attack a real person like that.

[sidwellian2012]

@injaley Yes I'm sure she is referring to herself. She wrote the script for Sense and Sensibility, which is how she purloined Jane Austen's creation and made changes. :D

[33Kitty]

@futurefighter2008

Really sweet and awesome of you to write it all down, must have been quite a work. enjoy that you did.

[americuxa]

can someone write what emma says is that I speak Spanish and I understand English but sometimes she talks too fast and do not understand some parts of his incredible speech

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and thank youuuuuuuuu

[Evil6Michell]

wow! she is amazing!

[StephanieSmith92]

Wow!.com

[EmmaAlanFan]

Wow!

She definetely is a great woman and so funny!

[83annak]

just brilliant and cute, dear Emma Thompson!

[PitterPatter100]

Emma Thompson is my very fave actress and this great speech just endorses that. Fabulous...better than all that twaddle that actors go on with usually.

[Pipsky12]

Love this woman! Amazing speech.

[gatsby7000]

As a Jane Austen fanatic, I adored this speech. She captured, quite well, Austen's style and languge.

[scudder99]

Forgive my indiscretion in making such a ghoulish remark. It was inappropriate, yet so irresistibly appropriate.  One should stoop when certain situations prevail. A most hackneyed "good evening" to you.

[scudder99]

@seshat52 I know what hyperbole means. As in "go fuck yourself".

[scudder99]

Growing old is not something to be lamented, but appreciated. The decay of our bodies is unfortunate, but the length of years, thankfully (& hopefully), exposes our ridiculous infatuation with the exterior of ourselves rather than the interior nature of our spirits. Floppy hair may be a distraction, but if it KILLS you, you might consider a change in your predisposition toward a prejudice of what you deem as physical imperfections,and may be considered as worthy and amusing attributes.

[rnbldsrnmsvlbl]

I think it's a case of "The hair spray was doing its job when I left my house" -- I've been there, it's unpredictable... ;)

[ZhoZhaal]

Finally something original in an acceptance speech.

[Bettiina90]

My god she is hilarious! And I love her accent!

[rainbowfish22]

Definitely one of my favorite acceptance speeches of all time! :D

[potterqueen17]

@seshat52 i know it was bugging me to all that she has to do is put it on the other side of the part and then i think it would be fine but it was an AWESOME speech

[seabury]

Oh what an INCREDIBLE speech!

[Valpolicella88]

Clever and funny just like Emma. Best acceptance speech ever!

[ILUVNY1994]

i love emma thompson. she is so talented, so smart & so funny. very original & clever speech. :)

[gucci89]

Beautiful

[metube12]

Love her! She's hilarious and fantastic!

[sjaeckh]

"A composer and a Scot, who displays the kind of wild behavior one has learned to expect from that race" - Too funny!! I love this!

[Shalimar1]

hahahah she's so funny and original! At least that's one actor who dares to laugh about herself, that can't be said of many! Then you really have character in my opinion!

[steelstrings87]

Ah she's a goddess!

[xXxmissemmaxXx]

haha love her

[MsDDiddy]

who is emily thompkinson? are u kidding? if this acceptance speech is too smart for you, then please do not insult the great Emma Thompson by watching it.

[beceno999]

Christ. What a ridiculous thing to say. You're obviously one of those awful people who scours youtube looking for easy targets to pick on and make yourself feel big. If you're so clever why don't you share your wisdom by answering the question instead of sneering at people like a prick.

[MsDDiddy]

No it is not a ridiculous thing to say at all. i think it's a perfectly rational response to idiocy. i dont feel big at all. this actually makes me sad that someone so stupid is watching something by the clever and witty Emma Thompson. sorry to disappoint you but i dont feel inclined to share my wisdom with an idiot, which is what you are if you dont get this speech at all.

[gallieman]

wonderful!

i spotted diane keaton and faye dunaway.

their great too.

[Victorian9322]

Who is Emily Thompkinson? Herself?

[vancitycanary]

Smart lady :)

[Victorian9322]

This made me lol

[rufuswinston]

brilliant !  JA would be proud!

[p8alan]

she Cracks me up LOVE HER

[freshman06]

um this 1996

[donniebirthday]

Emma Thompson makes me feel proud to be English :-D

[rnbldsrnmsvlbl]

She knows JA so well...! It comes from growing up with and in her language, I suppose... I'm convinced this is exactly what JA would have written, only she wouldn't have dissed ET!

[mumto4ms]

Just one word ..........

BRILLIANT!

[Suura]

Exactly! The best award speech I've heard in a long time :)

[helendqueen]

I love her! Emma Thompso,n the best

[MnMFeva]

Beyond brilliance! Love her to death!