Glenn Close brought the Golden Globes audience to tears with a deeply personal acceptance speech for Best Actress by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for The Wife. In the film, Close plays Joan Archer, a woman reflecting on her life and marriage while accompanying her husband on his trip to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature. The role held special meaning for Close, who honored her late mother in her speech and brought the room to its feet with the declaration, “Women… We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, ‘I can do that, and I should be allowed to do that.'”
Read the speech in full below.
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