Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech 2017

I love you all. You'll have to ______________ me. I've lost my voice in
______________ and ______________ this weekend. And I have lost my mind
sometime ______________ this year. So, I have to read.

Thank you, Hollywood ______________ press. Just to _______ _______ on

what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, __________, belong to
the most ______________ segments in American ______________ right now.
Think about it. ______________, foreigners, and the ______________. But
who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood ______________?
It's just a bunch of people from other places.

I was ________ and ________ and ________ in the ________ schools of New
Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper's ________ in South Carolina,
and grew up in Central Falls, Rhode ________. Sarah Paulson was ________ by
a ________ mom in ________. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of ________ or
________ kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in ________. Natalie Portman
was born in ________. Where are their birth _____________? And the
________ Ruth Negga was born in ________, raised in -- no, in ________, I do
________. And she's here ________ for playing a small ________ girl from
Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the ________ people, is ________. And Dev
Patel was born in ________, raised in ________, is here for playing an
________ raised in ________.

Hollywood is ________ with ________ and ________. If you kick 'em all out,
you'll have ________ to watch but football and mixed ________ arts, which are
not the ________. They gave me three ________ to say this. An ________ only
job is to enter the ________ of people who are ________ from us and let you
________ what that feels like. And there were many, many, many ________
________ this year that did exactly that, __________, ________ work.

There was one ____________ this year that ____________ me. It ________ its
________ in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about
it. But it was ________ and it did its job. It made its ________ audience laugh
and show their ________. It was that ________ when the person asking to sit in
the most ________ seat in our country ________ a ________ ________,
someone he ________ in ________, ________, and the ________ to fight back.
It kind of ________ my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head
because it wasn't in a movie. It was ________ life.

And this ________ to ________, when it's ________ by someone in the public
________, by someone ________, it filters down into everybody's ________,
because it kind of gives ________ for other people to do the same thing.
Disrespect ________ disrespect. Violence ________ violence. When the
powerful use their position to ________ others, we all ________.

This brings me to the press. We need the ________ press to hold power to
________, to call them on the carpet for every ________. That's why our
founders ________ the press and its freedoms in our ________. So, I only ask
the famously ______________ Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our
________ to join me in ________ the committee to protect ________. Because
we're going to need them going ________. And they'll need us to ________ the
truth.

One more thing. Once when I was standing around on the set one day ________
about something, we were going to work through ________, or the long hours
or ________, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just
to be an ________. Yeah, it is. And we have to ________ each other of the
privilege and the ________ of the act of ________. We should all be very proud
of the work Hollywood ________ here tonight.

As my friend, the dear ________ Princess Leia, said to me once, take your
________ ________, make it into ________. Thank you."