I never believe in starting off with a negative. So I've waited a while before giving you the tips on what not to do. But there are a few things that you really, really need to go out of your way to avoid when giving an acceptance speech. And one of them is reading. I like to thank my accountant, my tax attorney, my hairstylist, my hair color is Ba ba ba ba. That's the worst reading because it has all the spontaneity of a state legislative meeting where there's just a secretary reading in the minutes of a meeting.

It's just awful. It's devoid of personality, emotion, and sincerity. So don't read I'll tell you in a minute what it's okay to have some notes. But you certainly should not have word for word scripted out. And I really don't think you should think more than as many people as would fit on fingers of your hand or fewer. If you have more people than that to thank.

Send them a personal note, create your own video that you post on your YouTube channel. Or if you're winning an Academy Award, they have what's called a thank you cam behind stage where you can think as people as long as you want as many people as you want. And now your agent can have something for their lobby to show all their other clients. But don't give a long, long, long laundry list of names. And don't read. I mean, those are the two biggest blunders that people make in the major award shows when they are receiving awards.

So don't do it. And don't tell you well, TJ I'll be nervous. I don't want to miss anything. I better have the whole script where I can written out. Don't do that. In a moment.

I'll show you how to use notes properly, but you got to get in your head. You can't read a whole acceptance speech. You need to be looking up at people, thanking people thanking the stars or whatever else you want to thank but don't be reading