Susan Sarandon

[static] Um, Susan Sarandon, great to talk to you.

Thanks for doing this.

My pleasure.

So many places I wanna talk about, so many things I wanna talk about.

I wanna say first because I watched it late last night, um, [lip smack] uh, not what you think I'm gonna say, I, I love Oscar acceptance speeches.

Um, I like them when they're not good.

Uh, I like them when they're good.

Uh, yours was outstanding.

Was it?

Really.

I, I actually-

Oh, my God, it was so great

... sometimes I vote for things just to get that acceptance speech.

Oh, because you know, you know the person will deliver.

No, I'm thinking, "Okay, these people, all their performances were fantastic.

This is crazy, you know, peaches and oranges, and what? How can you even compare them? So who's gonna give the best speech? Who will be the most emotional? Who's the most grateful? You know, how, what are we, what are we gonna get with this speech? What will it mean if this person wins," you know? I think that a lot of people vote that way at the Academy because, I mean, it's such a difficult process.

I d- have no idea what I said actually because I was so traumatized by getting up, although I was...

What's his, Larry Fishburne was sitting behind me and he said, "If you don't win it this time, we're burning the place down." [laughs]

[laughs] Yeah.

Which I appreciated, and I thought, "Yeah, finally I get to show the bottom half of my dress." But, you know-

[laughs]

...

I'd nominate, that was my fifth nomination, which is nothing compared to some people.

But I was, y- your, when you're sitting there, and by now your blood sugar is so low because you're at the very end of the program, uh, you're thinking, "Which is worse? Just trying to be happy for the other person when you don't win, or having to actually get up there and try to remember to thank everybody?" Sister Helen was there, much to my mother's dismay because she wanted to be there.

But I invited Sister Helen.