Excerpts from Jodie Foster’s acceptance speech from the 2013 Golden Globes…
“I’m 50! I’m 50!….
This brings me to the greatest influence of my life, my amazing mother, Evelyn. Mom, I know you’re inside those blue eyes somewhere and that there are so many things that you won’t understand tonight. But this is the only important one to take in: I love you, I love you, I love you. And I hope that if I say this three times, it will magically and perfectly enter into your soul, fill you with grace and the joy of knowing that you did good in this life. You’re a great mom. Please take that with you when you’re finally OK to go.
“You see, Charlie and Kit, sometimes your mom loses it too. I can’t help but get moony, you know. This feels like the end of one era and the beginning of something else. Scary and exciting and now what? Well, I may never be up on this stage again, on any stage for that matter. Change, you gotta love it. I will continue to tell stories, to move people by being moved, the greatest job in the world. It’s just that from now on, I may be holding a different talking stick. And maybe it won’t be as sparkly, maybe it won’t open on 3,000 screens, maybe it will be so quiet and delicate that only dogs can hear it whistle. But it will be my writing on the wall. Jodie Foster was here, I still am, and I want to be seen, to be understood deeply and to be not so very lonely.
“Thank you, all of you, for the company. Here’s to the next 50 years.”
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There was more to her speech before the last quote but i felt the most poignant was when she spoke to her mom and to her boys…From finding it hard to say goodbye to your precious parent, her mom, who clearly is fighting letting go & dying, to addressing her future as yet to be written…
Her life has been in the film world since she was a toddler of 3 to the age she is now, 50. She really is saying that life happens and that we each go through different stages and evolutions but above it all we need to be excited for what future we make…that journey…and about not being lonely…
I was deeply moved since i too am 50! I document life through my lens. The Life of others. My clients, My friends, My family. What is my legacy? I think it is the gift of memories. I hope the people who look at my work in the photographs that i have done for them, whatever memory the image evokes, that it is one that warms their heart in some way…
-blessings,Elena
