oh my god! all right, here's the sign that's on my door, and the note that I've just put in my instant messenger profile:
"At approximately 12:10 (Eastern Standard Time) on March 25, 2002, history was made. Halle Berry *won* the Academy Award for Best Actress. A journey 74 years in the making has come full circle! Look for me in 2009 y'all...I'm gonna do it too! And at 12:26, Denzel Washington won the Oscar for Best Actor! History again...didn't think it would happen so soon, huh?"
And it's true...history has been made! Halle is the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress! And I mean it when I say I'm gonna do it too...maybe not in 2009, but someday I will. See, three years ago, I realized that I really love to act (even though I've never been in a play or movie), and I made a promise to myself that ten years from that day, I would win an Academy Award for it. I didn't think about the fact that I am a Black woman and that I would be doing something that, at that time, had never been done before. I simply knew that I wanted to get the highest award for doing something that I love. I want to be in movies and give performances that are going to move people. Do something that's going to make people stand up and say, "Wow! That was amazing!" I want to affect people, make them hear what I have to say, take them on a journey that is in my movie, have them lose themselves in the story. I want to be an actress, now more than ever.
So of course, Halle Berry will never read this silly little web journal of mine, but when I get the chance, I will find the way to let her know what she has just done for me tonight. I haven't even seen "Monster's Ball," but it's obvious that she did a phenomenal job. I've always admired her, and seen her as a role model (besides the whole hit-and-run thing). And she won! She won! She's there on the tv right now, answering questions with ease...saying that all women of color can be hopeful now, we can go and do the same things that she's done. And I'm going to do it. I'm going to throw myself into this and go through all of the craziness that is the show business, and I'm going to be a successful actress, and I'm going to win an Academy Award.
This is all so mind blowing for me right now...absolutely amazing. Jeez, I'm sounding like I won the award. But at least I know I'm not totally crazy when I find myself practicing my acceptance speech. Well, I really need to go to bed now, but I know I'm gonna be looking over my lines for my scene in acting class before I sleep. I'm gonna need all the practice that I can get.
"At approximately 12:10 (Eastern Standard Time) on March 25, 2002, history was made. Halle Berry *won* the Academy Award for Best Actress. A journey 74 years in the making has come full circle! Look for me in 2009 y'all...I'm gonna do it too! And at 12:26, Denzel Washington won the Oscar for Best Actor! History again...didn't think it would happen so soon, huh?"
And it's true...history has been made! Halle is the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress! And I mean it when I say I'm gonna do it too...maybe not in 2009, but someday I will. See, three years ago, I realized that I really love to act (even though I've never been in a play or movie), and I made a promise to myself that ten years from that day, I would win an Academy Award for it. I didn't think about the fact that I am a Black woman and that I would be doing something that, at that time, had never been done before. I simply knew that I wanted to get the highest award for doing something that I love. I want to be in movies and give performances that are going to move people. Do something that's going to make people stand up and say, "Wow! That was amazing!" I want to affect people, make them hear what I have to say, take them on a journey that is in my movie, have them lose themselves in the story. I want to be an actress, now more than ever.
So of course, Halle Berry will never read this silly little web journal of mine, but when I get the chance, I will find the way to let her know what she has just done for me tonight. I haven't even seen "Monster's Ball," but it's obvious that she did a phenomenal job. I've always admired her, and seen her as a role model (besides the whole hit-and-run thing). And she won! She won! She's there on the tv right now, answering questions with ease...saying that all women of color can be hopeful now, we can go and do the same things that she's done. And I'm going to do it. I'm going to throw myself into this and go through all of the craziness that is the show business, and I'm going to be a successful actress, and I'm going to win an Academy Award.
This is all so mind blowing for me right now...absolutely amazing. Jeez, I'm sounding like I won the award. But at least I know I'm not totally crazy when I find myself practicing my acceptance speech. Well, I really need to go to bed now, but I know I'm gonna be looking over my lines for my scene in acting class before I sleep. I'm gonna need all the practice that I can get.
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