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With winners to be announced during the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted ceremony on January 12, 2014, the talented stars of television and cinema have offered up their reactions to their nominations for the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards. Speaking words of gratitude, excitement and praise, a comprehensive collection of quotes from the latest crop of esteemed Golden Globes hopefuls reads as follows: Julia Roberts (Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for August: Osage County: “Being a part of a film like AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY was a dream come true for me as an actor.

Some great actors are as comfortable in front of a press line as they are in front of the camera; others, not so much. No one for instance has ever accused Joaquin Phoenix of answering journalists’ questions as effortlessly as he disappears into the characters he portrays onscreen.

Although she’s just turned 30 and has just been on the scene for a handful of years, there’s something about Greta Gerwig that both sets her apart from and makes her very emblematic of the Indie film scene. Her looks are more jolie-laide than beautiful and she embodies quirky, laid-back traits while exuding the kind of honesty and insecurity commonly associated with real-life scenarios.

Amy Adams, 39, lights up the room. The soft-spoken American actress thanks her parents, Richard Kent and Kathryn Adams, for her good manners.

Jared Leto could quite possibly be the ultimate showbiz chameleon. While Leto “rock star” might be a more familiar moniker these days as frontman to Thirty Seconds to Mars, whose current world tour and fourth album, “Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams” have taken the band to the stratosphere of success, his return to the movie screen in Dallas Buyers Club as the delicately spoken, transgender HIV-positive Rayon proves that when he is not zip-lining over a festival crowd at Rock in Rio, or directing his band’s MTV award-winning music videos, the 42-year-old is still one of cinema’s most intriguing actors and one with a consistent record of choosing challenging roles.

“Acting alongside Meryl Streep, in the role of her daughter, arguing with her about the film, screaming at each other, fighting with her! Osage County was the best acting experience I’ve ever had. ” Julia Roberts gets teary-eyed every time she talks about John Wells' August: Osage County, which has assured her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress.

There is a school of thought that says that Emma Thompson should win every award under the sun so that we may have the pleasure of hearing her acceptance speech. She thanked the Academy this way upon winning Best Screenplay in 1996 for Sense and Sensibility – “Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen’s grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and to tell her about the grosses.

Since the publication of the first volume of her memoir last month, Anjelica Huston has been everywhere. This week, she re-joined the HFPA at our West Hollywood offices where she regaled us with stories of the overpowering influence of her larger-than-life father, John Huston and the family’s peripatetic life.

There is perhaps no other movie that merits a Golden Globe nomination more than Blue is the Warmest Color. The French film began garnering accolades at the Cannes Film festival, where it was awarded the prestigious Palme D’or.

The crowd, congregating in the hotel-size kitchen, was exuberant, hyper and noisy. Just what you’d expect at a party in a producer’s mansion on top of the Hollywood Hills! Okay, I thought: “Been there, done that.