When you're giving an acceptance speech, especially if it's for anything to do with something in the arts, an Oscar a cat Academy Awards, the Emmys the Tonys, anything in the creative fields, keep in mind you're an entertainer. So something in your acceptance speech should be entertaining. Now, ideally it's funny, but if it's not funny, at least a dramatic moment, something with a little emotion. It's always disappointing when people who are known as World Class entertainers, and they get up to give an acceptance speech, and they seem about as entertaining as if an accountant were reading the phone book to you or the latest IRS regulation change. Remember who you are, whatever your strengths are. Use those strengths display those strengths.

So if you are anything in the entertainment field, use this to entertain now You're not going to give a humorous speech and be Garrison Keillor for an hour, but you do have a minute or you can say at least something amusing, interesting, entertaining, so, plan on having something entertaining, even if you're just making fun of yourself. Remember, for a lot of people who get acceptance speeches, more people are watching the acceptance speech they will ever see your movie or your video or your Broadway show. So people often have it backwards. They think I'm going to rehearse hour after hour after hour for monster my Broadway show which 200 people see a night and now I'm going to be on the Tonys on CBS. Millions of people are going to see it I'm just gonna wait now. Give it the time and effort and energy to create an entertaining moment.

So something in your acceptance speech needs to To be entertaining