Paul Drinkwater/NBCKevin Spacey's touching Golden Globes acceptance speech including one hilarious f-bomb!
After winning the award for Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama for his role in House of Cards, the 55-year-old took the stage to share a few words. "This is just the beginning of my revenge," Spacey joked before thanking his co-stars and the House of Cards creators and writers.
"This is the eighth time I've been nominated. I can't f--king believe I won," Spacey went on as he was simultaneously censored by the network. "But I just wanna tell you a little story that will explain to you how I feel about this tonight. The last time that I saw Stanley Kramer, one of the great filmmakers of all time, was at the Motion Picture and Television home and I was sitting with him and he was in a wheelchair, he was ill at this time."
Spacey went on, "And as I was about to leave I realized I had never told him what I thought about his work, how much his work had meant to me. So I said to him, ‘The films you made, the subjects you tackled, the performances you got out of some of the greatest actors who have ever walked the face of the earth, the Oscars you've won—you're films will stand the test of time and will influence filmmakers for all time.'"
"And I didn't know whether he had really retained what I said or not," he added. "Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't. But as I stood up to leave he grabbed my hand and I looked at his wife across the room and I sat back down and he said to me as clear as anything he'd ever said, ‘Thank you so much for saying that. That means so much to me. I just wish my films could have been better.' And so as I stand here tonight as someone who's enjoyed such an extraordinary career in large measure because of people in this room. I just wanted to be better. I just want to be better. But this is very encouraging. Thank you very much."