from the time you were little people have smiled you into smiling people have talked you into talking sung you into singing loved you into loving people have helped you all along the way some of them may be right here some of them may be far away some of them may even be in heaven but deep down you've always known they wanted what was better they wanted what was best for you they've cared about you beyond measure and have encouraged you to be true to the best within you I heard this quote I wrote it down and the speech that I was writing for this I ripped up because I I didn't come into this business my first job was 26 I did not come in fully formed I always feel that I'm a work in progress and there is no absolutely I promise you no way I would be standing on the stage with this extraordinary honor the art of collaboration about decency about how to make choices that are true making things for the right reason you saw a performance in me and believed in me in a way that I was not sure about and the experience of working with you has taught me so much about being honest where you want to get to in life is never as important as the way you want to live your life the other thing for me has been choices making choices I've I leared the hard way of sometimes doing things that I didn't feel were right went against my gut on it that's hard and I I really try to avoid that now even and and and actually f if you really believe in it when you say yes is fine