Ryan Gosling’s speech at the Golden Globes will win your heart

 

They say behind every successful man is a woman, and Ryan Gosling exemplified that in his moving speech when he won the Best Actor Award in a musical or comedy, for his performance in the acclaimed La, La, Land.
 

In his speech, he thanked his partner Eva Mendes for holding fort.
 

He said: “You don’t get to be up here without standing on the shoulders of a mountain of people. I just would like to try to thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter and pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer. If she hadn’t have taken all of that on so that I could have this experience, there would surely be someone else up here other than me today. Sweetheart, thank you. To my daughters Amada and Esmerelda, I love you. And if I may I’d like to dedicate this to the memory of her brother Juan Carlos Mendes.”

 

 

 

And, this ladies and gentlemen, is a testament of keeping your relationship real and rock-steady, because let’s face it – it’s not always sunshine and rainbows  – as movies would like us to believe.

 

It’s the little things that matter the most; especially when one takes a backseat in a relationship to be supportive of his or her partner.  It’s an often thankless and underappreciated role that no one talks about because it’s taken for granted.
 

 

Twitter was lit, post his speech. Here are some of the reactions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Men, take a leaf from Goslings’ book; women, this applies to you as well. 

Mendes subtly reciprocated with this Instagram post.