'This Is The First Time I've Ever Won'

'Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress.'
'And I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do.'

Demi Moore took home the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor Performance in Comedy or Musical for her performance in The Substance, and evoked a loud cheer with her powerful speech at the ceremony.

'Oh wow. I really wasn't expecting that. I'm just in shock right now,' she said.

'I've been doing this a long time, like over 45 years and this is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor. I'm just so humbled and so grateful.'

Moore, 62, who won for the body-horror satire The Substance, said in her speech that a producer once dismissed her as a 'popcorn actress' 30 years ago.

'Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress. At that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn't be acknowledged. And I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do,' she said.

'And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you're not done.'

'I'll just leave you with one thing that I think this movie is imparting is in those moments when we don't think we're smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough, or basically just not enough.

'I had a woman say to me, 'Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.' And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong. Thank you so much.'

The Substance brings Moore her third Golden Globe nomination but the first in many years; she was last recognised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for 1990's Ghost and 1996 TV movie If These Walls Could Talk.