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[QVC Shopper]

certain groups....I've read several blogs this morning and it seems the gay community and those suffering from HIV are not happy with his speech. He didn't acknowledge them at all. There would have been no story without them. His co-star did so but Matthew didn't.

[brii]

I thought his speech was fantastic.

Didn't know he had to specifically thank anybody...

[stilltamn8r]

Geez, he spent years trying to get the movie made FOR them... I couldhave sworn he said something in his speech...

[Marianne1]

you can't please everyone, every day.

[deepwaterdotter]

"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." - John Lydgate

[croemer]

On 3/3/2014 brii said:

I thought his speech was fantastic.

Didn't know he had to specifically thank anybody...

And what a beautiful speech it was too.

[terrier3]

On 3/3/2014 stilltamn8r said:

Geez, he spent years trying to get the movie made FOR them... I couldhave sworn he said something in his speech...

I thought he did too...near the end.

At least he remembered to mention his family - I cringe when actors forget the people closest to them!

[AngusandBuddhasMom]

His speech was heartfelt and maybe these groups need to actually learn his background and the hoops he jumped through to get this movie made. Was the movie supposed to be about these groups or Ron Woodroof ?

As mentioned above you can't please everybody without someone getting bent out of shape.

[serenity4ever]

Here is his speech....

Thank you -- all of these performances were impeccable. In my opinion I didn't see a false note anywhere. I want to thank Jean-Marc Vallee our director. I want to thank Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner who I worked with daily.

There are three things that I need each day. One, I need something to look up to, another to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.

First off, I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or of any other hand. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

To my family is to what I look forward to. To my father [James] who I know is up there right now with a big pot of gumbo, he has a big lemon meringue pie over there. He's probably in his underwear and has a big can of Miller Lite and he's dancing right now. To you dad, you taught me how to be a man.

To my mother [Mary] who's here tonight, who taught me and my two older brothers -- demanded -- that we respect ourselves. And in turn we learned we were better able to learn how to respect others. Thank you for that mama.

To my wife, Camilla, and my kids Levi, Vida and Mr Stone (Livingstone), the courage you give me every time I walk through the door is unparallelled. You are the four people in my life that I want to make the most proud of me. Thank you.

And to my hero. That's who I chase. When I was 15 years old I had a very important person in my life come and ask me 'Who's your hero?' I said, 'I thought about it and it's me in ten years. So I turned 25 ten years later and that same person comes to me and goes, 'Are you a hero?' I said, 'Not even close!' She said why and I said, 'My hero is me at 35.' You see, every day, and every week, and every month, and every year of my life, my hero is always ten years away. I'm never going to be my hero. I'm not going to obtain that and that's fine with me because it keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.

So to any of us, whatever those things are and whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to and whoever it is we're chasing, to that I say Amen. To that I say alright, alright, alright. And just keep living, huh? Thank you.

[QVC Shopper]

Thanks for posting it Serenity. So there really was no mention.

I thought Jared Leto's speech was truly amazing and the best one of the night.