Jennifer Coolidge Cracks Everyone Up With 'White Lotus' Golden Globe Win
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"I thought I was gonna be Queen of Monaco, but you get older."
Jennifer Coolidge won her first Golden Globe for The White Lotus Season 2, and her acceptance speech was everything her fans could dream it would be.
Setting her statuette aside, she joked, "I don't work out, you know what I mean? I can't hold it that long."
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"This is such a great night I'm so glad to be here and in the company of all of you, and the Hollywood Foreign Press," she said.
Coolidge then dedicated the rest of her speech to all the directors and creators who help "keep her going" with "little jobs."
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She gushed about Ryan Murphy and Michael Patrick King for giving her work consistently and thanked Reese Witherspoon for helping her gain a following through Legally Blonde, adding, "American Pie, I milked that to the bone!"
"I had such big dreams and expectations as a younger person but they get sort of fizzled by life," she said. "I thought I was gonna be Queen of Monaco, but you get older."
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It was then that she dedicated the rest of her time to White Lotus creator Mike White.
"Mike White has given me hope. Even if this is the end, because you killed me off, but you changed my life in a million different ways!" she said. "My neighbors are speaking to me and things like that. I was never invited to a single party on my hill and now everybody's inviting me!"
