Thank you. Thank you, guys.
I love you so much! Thank you.
You know, I look at those movies,
and I see all the wonderful people
that I've been blessed to know and to work with.
You're only as good as the people that you work with.
And if you're lucky, they make you better,
and I have been very lucky in that regard.
As an actor, I'm not any of the women that I've played,
but there is a part of what is deeply true to me
in each one of those characters.
And since you cannot create truth
unless you've really lived it,
I have a different kind of list of thank-yous tonight.
I want to thank all the people who gave me this life.
I want thank the people who gave me joy
and the ones who broke my heart,
the ones who were true and the ones who lied to me.
I want to thank true love,
and I want to thank the way that I lied to myself
because that's how I knew that I had to grow.
I want to thank disappointment and failure
for teaching me to be strong,
and my children for teaching me to love.
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I want to thank all the people
who told me to my face
or when I wasn't in the room that I couldn't do this.
I really don't think I could have done it without you.
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And I know I couldn't have done it
without the fans who saw the movies.
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You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you.
You are the reason that I am here
and that I have been here, and I love you.
I love you.
And I want to thank--
I don't usually do this very much,
but some of you who know me know this person,
and I want to take this moment to do this.
I want to thank Benny Medina.
- Wow.
- He doesn't like me to talk about him.
He likes to be in the background.
You know "Jerry Maguire," where he's like the half
of the thing, like-- He's that guy.
But he's more than just my manager.
If there's one person who believed in me
from the beginning, from the first time
I played him a raggedy little demo of a song
that I had wrote that day, and he never let me
stop believing in myself, it was him.
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You know, when someone is at your side,
you know when they're there at your lowest
and most hopeless point, that you will never forget it,
and you never want to let them down.
And there were times so low, I think I kept going more
for you than for myself because I love you.
Thank you. Thank you for believing.
You are the true meaning of ride or die.
That is the truth. It hasn't been easy,
but I wouldn't change anything for the world.
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I'm sorry I'm so emotional.
I get emotional. You guys know me.
It's an honor to be able to connect with audiences,
to connect with you guys, and because of all of you,
I will continue to do justice to that honor
as long as I am around. I love you.
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Thank you so much.
I'd also like to thank Bruce and everybody at MTV
for this Generations Award. You guys are amazing.
Thank you for being such an amazing platform
for all artists, especially me over the years.
I love you. Thank you, and Ben and everybody at home.
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Wait for me to have dinner! I'll be home by 7! I love you.