Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.
Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.
Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.