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I know what I have to do now. I got to keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

— Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in Cast Away (2000)

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And the meaning between two simple words that I can only offer you here: Thank you, God bless you in this room and God bless you all around the world.

I'm empowered to stand here thanks to the ensemble of actors, men and women, who I shared the screen with and who in ways they will never understand made me a better actor.

Thank you. I'm standing here in lieu of my fellow nominees who are just as deserving, if not more so of this moment.

Man, I feel as though I'm standing on magic legs in a special effects process shot that is too unbelievable to imagine and far too costly to make a reality.

And I am standing here because the woman I share my life with has taught me and demonstrates for me every day just what love is. [Voice breaks as wife Rita Wilson tearfully mouths 'I love you'.]

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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