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Acceptance Speeches Transcripts
INAUGURAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
Tom Hanks Film — Forrest Gump Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Thank you. Thank you. I love that this man is holding the masks of comedy and tragedy. They’re both so hard to do and actually they’re almost mirror images of each other. Both of them will make you lose sleep, question your motives, wonder why you’re there, wonder why you’re doing this in the first place. But if you’re crazy enough to want to do that in a medium that never lets you forget you were there in the first place. That lives forever. You can get one of these: a Screen Actors Guild card. I got mine for the pilot of Bosom Buddies. My wife got hers for playing a cheerleader on the Brady Bunch. We’ve all got our wonderful stories and our wonderful memories that are connected with this. If you’re lucky enough you get to work in an ensemble with Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. And get to work under the guidance of Steve Starkey, Wendy Finerman, Bob Zemeckis, Eric Roth. If you’re really lucky you get to be singled out with Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, John Travolta, with Paul Newman. I say I’m the luckiest man in the world because I’ve got the most gorgeous wife, who I would say is Miss SAG of 1982. I’m not sure, but you get to have a moment like this in front of all you, my peers. Thank you, thank you.
Jodie Foster Film — Nell Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role [was not in attendance]
Martin Landau Film — Ed Wood Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role This has been an amazing year for me. You know I have to thank Tim Burton for seeing me in this part when I didn’t see myself in the part. He said there was no other actor he wanted for this part… and it’s great to get a part where audiences can laugh a little, cry a little and maybe think a little. And it was a great honor to play this actor who is really gifted. It was sort of homage to actors. I joined SAG in 1952. It wasn’t my first union. My first was Equity and then AFTRA because it was live television. So I started in theatre and went to live television… and then I became a film actor by default. In that I was doing Sigma Core films and stuff like that in New York. And, uh, it’s been a long trip. There are 78,000 actor members of SAG. This is a very meaningful thing to me because it’s my peers and I love actors, I care about actors, they are my life. Ten years ago, there were casting directors who wouldn’t see me, agents that wouldn’t represent me and I know how tough it is to get a job and then when you get a job to do the job well. It’s a tough, tough life: peaks and valleys, life and career. This is a peak and I gotta say, I hope I live long enough to work with every one of those 78,000 people.
Dianne Wiest Film – Bullets Over Broadway Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts Wow, get the car. I guess it’s safe to say that ah, [gestures to other male nominees] that there is life after hair. Thank you. I am very honored to be the first recipient of this award. And it would be impossible for me to accept it without acknowledging the wonderful cast, which I think is the best cast on television. I have to give respect for the people responsible for creating the characters that we are fortunate enough to bring each week to the show. And that is Steven Bochco, David Milch, Gregory Hoblit are wonderfully gifted writers. I need to thank Judith Moss, Jack Fields, Sam Gore, Cynthia Synder for making my life easier so I can work. And on a personal level, my bride-to-be Jonie Zack and our two wonderful girls, Tricia and Krista, who make my life complete. I am a very lucky man. Thank you very much.
- Helen Hunt Television – Mad About You Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Thank you very much. This furthers my theory that I am currently the luckiest woman that I know. First of all, Paul Reiser, with all due respect to everyone in this room, is the best. Not only the funniest person I’ve ever seen, but the best actor ever. And I feel that I have been graced to work with this person every day. It’s like getting to play the best acting tennis ever, every day. So I’m incredibly lucky. Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, and John Pankow are laughing right now because I forgot to thank them when I won the Golden Globe, A, and B – Paul and I have gotten a lot of attention from this show and the truth is there are five of us and they’re not only incredibly talented and incredibly funny, but my dear friends. So I’m honored to get to work with them. Our writers Danny Jacobson and Jeffrey Lane and our whole staff of writers, they’re why we’re here and I’m standing in front of you. I’d like to thank my manager, Connie Tavel, Stephen Huvane, and Adam Venit. And, thank you very much.
- Jason Alexander Television — Seinfeld Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series I had money on everybody else. I’ve never been so unprepared for anything. I’ve thought of nothing, I don’t even know who else is in the show. Thank you, NBC; I should do that because I’ll be out of a job one day. And, they’re checked off. Thank you, everyone at table six, even Jane Seymour because you’re lovely to sit with. I just have the best job in TV and it’s a pleasure to go to work every day and have as much fun as I do and get paid for it and get things like this [holding up The Actor® statuette]. And most of that, the success that I’ve enjoyed, is due to two people in particular, my pals: Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. For making me look so stupid each week. I also want to thank my family, who’s in town. Mom, Jaime, Dad, Sister, and that beautiful woman I’m sitting next to is my wife, Dana, who actually tells me how to do it every week, and my little boy Gabriel at home. Thank you very much. I am very flattered by this. Thank you.
- Television – NYPD Blue
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series HENRY SIMMONS: I guess I’ve been elected. We’ve been through a lot as a cast together, if you can imagine to get the floods and fires, and earthquakes, Donald Wildmen, David Carnos departure… but we’re here and I guess that’s the important thing. We would all like to thank Steven Bochco for obvious reasons. David Milch, Greg Hoblit, Mike Robbin, Jenny Laurie, Alexis Noblo, our cast and our wonderful crew. Thank you very much.
- Television – Friends Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series JERRY SEINFELD: Yeah, I know it’s hard to believe in a town with this much plastic surgery that you can even give out a SAG Award. But, I always open with a joke. This is really, really something to be honored as an ensemble because I know I speak for all of us when I say we, we take our group work very seriously. We love to work together and before each show we all kind of get together and hold hands. We love to work together and so we’re really glad to be honored in this way. Thank you very much. 1. George Burns SAG Lifetime Achievement Award Thank you. Thank you very much. Now I’m gonna do something that’s not easy to do. I’m gonna sit down.
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts It gives me chance to thank a really great group of actors. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon were all prepared to go up to the moon while a group of about 40 of us were in mission control working four or five weeks at Universal Pictures. And this was a great group of actors. Ron Howard assembled a great group of guys and we worked really hard together. And, I hope a lot of them are watching this because this is for you guys as well as me. I am really appreciative – talk about support. This was – I just can’t tell you how hard we worked together and how much we wanted the film to work. Some of these guys are on the screen for all of two seconds but they were there every day all day long working their butts off. I have to thank Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. I’ve got to thank my beautiful wife Amy. I’ve also got to thank God and Mother Earth for the precious gift of life. Thank you.
- Kate Winslet Film – Sense and Sensibility Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
- Film – Apollo 13 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture TOM HANKS: Thank you, we are delighted. Our ensemble effort on camera was rooted in the research that we did and the reality of the ensemble efforts of thousands of Americans. Men, women, and children who in the decade of the 1960s figured out a way to send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth. Thank you for recognizing our efforts, and also their efforts by way of dedication, I think. On behalf of all the cast, let me say that a man by the name of Chris Kraft was to America’s manned lunar project what a certain man by the name of Ron Howard was to the filming of Apollo 13. We salute you and we salute our fellow actors. Thank you very much.
- Alfre Woodard Television — The Piano Lesson, Hallmark Hall of Fame Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Oh my, Oh wow. I have to put this down, this is really heavy – is it going to fall? Thanks, thanks, just like thank you Screen Actors Guild, all of my friends, all my … I have to remind myself that this is going out to millions. I see my friends here tonight and we’re so used to cutting up together and the suits out here, except the suits we like – so I have to behave myself. But I am just so psyched. This is like really, really excellent. Thank you so much. I am so grateful that my life has led me to this community of people. I can’t imagine spending my life in any other industry. We’re vagabonds, clowns, queens, crackpots. You are my friends. You are my partners. There is no performance I think I have ever done that has been a vacuum. We are only as good as we are to each other and I just... I’m so happy and thrilled. I want to remind us that we must never judge ourselves by other people’s opinion of us. We got to find some way… searching to come to a respect and love and an honesty about ourselves, about our craft. And to all of us, many of us, for most who are at home, who are never working, who are seldom working, who are not just trying to fashion a career, just trying to pay the rent. You hang in there, keep the faith and celebrate that fact right now.
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts This is so cool, this kind of makes me laugh when they say, “and The Actor® goes to.” Now I got to find him some work too. Thank you.
- Gary Sinese Television – Truman Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series [was not in attendance]
- Gillian Anderson Television – The X-Files Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series I have absolutely nothing to say. I didn’t expect this at all. Um, where did you people come from? Thank you to SAG and all of its members for nominating me. Thank you to my husband for being with me through this time. My nanny, for making these hours work, even possible. The writers Glen Morgan, James Wong – I am forgetting all of them right now. That’s okay… they’re not even with the show anymore. But, hell… okay. I’ll wrap now. Chris Carter, thank you, Executive Producer. All of the direction – David, I love you. And my daughter, Piper, for waking me up.
- Anthony Edwards Television — ER Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Wow. Hey. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks. Thanks. Every week we employ half of the Screen Actors Guild on our show, so I appreciate that. Thank you to members of SAG, who I’m proud to be a part of. I’m also very proud to be part of an incredible group of actors: Julianna Marguiles and Noah Wyle and Eriq La Salle and Sherry Stringfield and Laurie Reuben and George Clooney — who I’ll hopefully play his Bat Boy to his Bat… uh, I don’t know to his… Cat Boy, I don’t know what I can play. Most importantly, I have to thank my wife who supports me constantly and I love and adore —Jeanine Lobell. And uh, in trying to think of who to dedicate this to, it makes me think about the fact that it’s unfortunate that we live in a country in which we don’t provide healthcare to all of our people, because we’re obsessed with the survival of the fittest. So, this goes to all the real EMTs, the real emergency docs, the real nurses, who are taking care of people all over the country and we’re thankful to them and we hope we continue to portray them in the light in which they work. Thank you all! I love you. Goodnight.
- Christine Baranski Television – Cybill Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Sean handed me my second Tony Award. This is the first time I have been nominated in the leading actress category. I think it is wonderful that it would come from my fellow actors. I must have worked with all of you at some point off-Broadway.
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts LISA KUDROW: Jennifer Anniston MATTHEW PERRY: Jennifer Aniston, I know! Couldn’t be here tonight because they’re doing publicity for the show and thank God for that! Because we’ve got to get a way to get this show out there to let people know that it’s about friends that drink coffee and say funny things. But ah, we’re honored to be honored by you all – the actors and wow! Okay.
- Robert Redford SAG Lifetime Achievement Award The biggest reason I’m honored is that I think that probably the most meaningful award at least to me is an award where your voted on or celebrated by your peers. And that’s what this seems to be, so I couldn’t be more honored. As for the award itself, I feel mixed brain about something that says Lifetime Achievement when I think my life is still going and my work is a work in progress. So, it’s kind of hard to know how to be with this except to be flattered and to be honored and to thank you. And to say that I will accept this in the spirit in which its given and use it as support to keep going. Thank you. And thank you Tom.
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3RD ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
- Geoffrey Rush Film — Shine Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Thank you very much, Screen Actors Guild. The scenario for me is someone shakes me on the shoulder and says wake up and realize I’m in shorts on my sofa in the middle of summer in my back room. And they tell me I wake up and say, a little bit like a cloved cat really, end up on the ceiling jittering and then I come down. So I had this weird dream I was in a tuxedo. I was nominated with Woody, Ray, Tom, and Billy Bob and they laugh at me. To all you guys, to be in your company, I can’t quite express what this means. However transitory it might be I hope we as a group, on behalf of all actors here tonight, in some way represent the diversity of continuing film making globally in some small way. They tell me that this [indicates The Actor® statuette] weighs 10 pounds. 96.67 of it goes to Noah and Alex, who played young David Helfgott. Thanks to Scott Hicks and Jan Sardia for allowing me to work with actors like Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and John Cousins. And I just wanted to add that I have said to David Helfgott himself, that he does have my permission whole heartily to get up and do me at parties. Thank you.
- Frances McDormand Film — Fargo Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Oh, thank you. I’m unemployed at the moment so this really exciting. As all we actors know, no performance is without collaboration. And I could name every single crew member and actor on Fargo, but we all followed two men: Joel and Ethan Coen of Minnesota and North Dakota for inspiration and forgave them and probably did some of our best work. Two of my goals as an actor are to confound expectations and to gain the respect of my peers. And if that’s what you’re telling me tonight, thank you very much. I am very grateful.
- Cuba Gooding Jr. Film – Jerry McGuire Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
- Lauren Bacall Film – The Mirror Has Two Faces Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
- Film – The Birdcage Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture [was not in attendance]
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts I have to acknowledge the man who’s most responsible for every word that us actors speak on the show and he fights tooth and nail for everything we do and say on our show and without him there would be no NYPD Blue. We all admire and respect and love David Milch. Steven Bochco, thanks for the job. Thanks for not killing off Sipowicz the first year. Bill Clark, Mike Robin, Mark tinker, Bob Doherty – thanks for being there everyday guys. Judith Mess, Sam Gorrs, Cynthia Synder. My beautiful wife, Jonie, our two wonderful kids Tricia and Krista. Thanks for making me lucky to be an actor. Thank you all.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus Television — Seinfeld Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Well, thank you very much, all of you actor people. In particular I’d like to thank some very special members of the Screen Actors Guild: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards. Without whom I’m nowhere and I love them very much. They know that. Thanks very much. I would just like to say a special thanks to my, my husband, Brad Halls, who’s just fantastic. Thank you very much.
- John Lithgow Television — 3rd Rock from the Sun Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Thank you so much. This is a particular honor being an award that comes to actors from actors. I have had a couple of opportunities this year to thank the loud, raucous, happy group at that table there. So I would like to do something a little different in the spirit of this evening, this actor friendly evening. I would like to pay special tribute to the other gentlemen in my category. To an actor I saw in his brilliant, Tony-winning performance in Jerome Robbins' Broadway , long before anyone had ever heard of George Costanza, Jason Alexander. To an actor whom I saw set an amazing, warm, happy, creative tone on the set of Frasier when I was a guest voice on that show, Kelsey Grammer. To an actor, who 15 years ago, in my twelfth Broadway show, had his Broadway debut and walked on stage and got the biggest laughs of the show, David Hyde Pierce. And finally to one of the funniest men on television, who I am shamelessly imitating about 50 percent of the time on 3rd Rock from the Sun , who without even knowing it was largely responsible for me even trying comedy on television, Michael Richards. Gentlemen, I am very, very proud to be in the same category with you. To all the rest of you, I am proud to be in the same profession as you. Thank you very, very, very much.
- Television — ER Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series ANTHONY EDWARDS: George said to say something nice. We are an ensemble, we are an ensemble of eight actors every week. We’re also an ensemble of probably 50 day players and guest stars that come in, that make up most of the Screen Actors Guild. So we share this with everybody who’s come on our show, and we have lots more roles coming up so you don’t have to worry about that. They keep dying for some reason, I don’t know. We keep bringing them back. This truly is an ensemble, but we also work with a crew of people on Stage 11 at Warner Brothers. That is, those thankful people who are as much a part of our family as we are to each other and we are to
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts our own family. We share this with our crew and excellent writers on our show. We thank you very much for watching. Thank you.
- Television – Seinfeld Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series JERRY SEINFELD: My name is Jerry Seinfeld, and I’m a bad actor. But I think I have proven convincingly that you can do very well in our business if you are smart enough to surround yourself with these spectacular talents that I have here beside me: Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, and Julia Louis- Dreyfus. I would also like to mention our wonderful director, Andy Acklemen, who’s helped us in a thousand ways and takes in shows that really people would not want to do and does the so well. So we are enormously honored and thrilled. We wanted to win this and we’re so happy that we did. I also think that the people who don’t show up should forfeit. If you don’t show up, the award goes to people who dressed up and come in here. Thank you.
- Angela Lansbury SAG Lifetime Achievement Award Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Glenny, it’s so dear that you remembered our meeting. I still have a little dish that you gave me and I use it as a stopper for a teapot that I broke the top off and I always think of you every time I use it. I feel so enormously honored to receive this most heart-warming life achievement award from the organization of my peers, the Screen Actors guild. And I do thank Richard Masur and the membership most dearly. It’s a particularly lovely occasion for me because my whole family is here with me. My beloved husband Peter who must take credit for supporting and guiding me through these many years. And my wonderful children Anthony, Deidre and David, all of whom have joined me in the great adventure of the family business. You know over the past 54 years I’ve been fortunate to have worked with some of the greatest talents in our business. Actors, directors, writers, producers, composers, lyricists, yes - and animators and wonderful wonderful crafts peoples, crews, carpenters, lighting, technicians, camera men, all of them. In that respect I have been truly blessed. It has been an outstanding life experience for me, I just love actors and I love the creative environment of our work. I mean the sense of family, whether it be on the stage or in film or on television. And the great news is girls the opportunities are out there for us at all ages. I mean looking at some of the exquisite work of women in film today I feel positively galvanized to keep going and strike out for new goals. I really do! After all a career, as far as I’m concerned, is still a work in progress. So, you might say I’m in development and I thank you for this extraordinary vote of encouragement. Thank you.
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts you. Thank you very much for this, I was sitting over there sweating like Marlon Brando after Thai food. I think you just got this off a Bentley. Thanks. I want to thank that young man over there. When I first met him I wanted to ask him for ID. I want to thank Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for writing words that kick you in the soul. I want to thank Gus Van Sant for being so mellow to turn a teamster to bet (?). I want to thank the whole ensemble Stellan, Cole, Casey, Minni, everybody who made it. It’s like jazz, you just go there and rip. Thanks to the people at South Boston because I want to go back. It’s a pisser. I want to thank that woman sitting over there who makes it very difficult to imagine life without her and this is ah… This award reminds me – they once asked Madame de Gaulle – What is the most important thing in life? She looked and said a penis. And they said Madame de Gaulle, what do you mean? And she said it’s so much better than unhappiness. So, thank you.
- Kim Basinger [Tie] Film – L.A. Confidential Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role I’m just thrilled to be here. And wow, now I win. Thank you so much for this to all of my peers who voted for me. Part of my cast is over there [blows a kiss]. Thank you so much. Without you this would’ve never been possible. Somehow I feel I was just voted president of the class. But for recognizing me and honoring me with this. Thank you so very much. I am so grateful.
- Gloria Stuart [Tie] Film – Titanic Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
- Film – The Full Monty Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture MARK ADDY: Thank you. The clothes will stay on. I am sorry to disappoint so many people at the same time. This is a tremendous surprise and a great honor. An on behalf of the cast of the Full Monty I’d like to thank everybody here. Peter Cattaneo – the director, Umburto Pasolini - the Producer, everyone at Fox Searchlight and Simon Beaufoy – the writer. And without a script like that we wouldn’t have anything to work from. Thank you.
- Alfre Woodard Television — Miss Evers' Boys Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Thank you. Thanks a whole lot, actors. You have been really good to me and I want you all to know I appreciate it. I do appreciate it and from… um, I get to stand up here tonight for a whole slew of people who were just acting up a storm in this movie. Laurence Fishburne and Joe Martin, are any of them here? Joe, I don’t know what I deserved to be in the middle of that sandwich but it was really nice. Obba Babatunde’, Ossie Davis – it’s like tag team acting. It was just a great time. Craig Sheffer, Thom Gossom, My good sister Donzaleigh Abernathy – we laughed a lot. I think you do that when
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts there’s so much to cry about. But I want you to know I am inspired by you and I’m just trying to keep it real. Thanks.
- Gary Sinise Television — George Wallac e Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Thank you. YEAH! I am really nervous here. And uh, thank you Ted Turner, Brad Segal, Julie Wice, Nick Limbardo, TNT for making this movie and supporting our great director John Frankenheimer. Every time you pushed and thank you John Framkenheimer for pushing as much as you did to make this movie. My family, my beautiful wife, Morra, for your courage, your strength, your support, your love, and your friendship… thank you honey. My agent Patrick Whitsel, my manager, Jerry Harrington, for their support. We have a great cast in George Wallace : Angelina Jolie, Clarence William III, Jo Don Baker, Teri Kenny and the beautiful Mary Winningham. These actors just... I mean … Everyone in this room knows what it’s like to be around actors when they’re coming at you. It just brings up the level of your own performance and it makes everything richer and it makes you invest so much more. I have to thank all my friends and fellow actors. Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, for the great teachers they have been throughout my artistic life. That’s been my artistic home for over 20 years. And I got to tell you, just being in this room and looking at these people. Everyone in here has been a teacher to me. Jack Nicholson, I mean Jack Nicholson… you’re here man! He’s here! Jack, you’re here man. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , I mean Chinatown , Last Detail. Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, these people have excited a riot with in me and made me want to be an actor. Many of you people. I’ve learned so very much. Thank you.
- Julianna Margulies Television – ER Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series I just learned a really important lesson tonight – to try the shoes on before you actually come to the award ceremony. Thank you so much, this is such an honor coming from my peers, to the women who were nominated along with me. I’m overwhelmed; I wasn’t expecting this at all. I have an incredible cast to thank. They have incredibly mastered the art of throwing the line away on our show. Which I think most actors would agree is possible the hardest thing to do. And you are so brilliant to work with. I have to give special thanks to my partner in crime, George Clooney. Who, although is not here tonight, really allows me to be free with my acting and gives me so much space. It’s a joy to work with you. George, wherever you are. To my incredible agent, Steve Dottenville – I would go on but Alfre Woodard really said it all at the Golden Globes, so I just second her emotions. Carrie Ross for her guidance and the writers and the producers, Lydia Woodward, Carol Flint … there’s too many people. You’re all wonderful. My family, I couldn’t be here tonight without you. And my true inspiration, I love you and thank you Ron.
- Anthony Edwards Television – ER
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts And be acknowledged in the company of the other actors who were also nominated. And I want to thank you very much to our peers. Thanks to our producers: Jon Wells, Lydia Woodward and Carol Flint. Our wonderful crew are funny and smart and terrific; and our wonderful day players and guest players and reoccurring players. YES! They come in… They come in every single day and they do amazing work and they jump on the speeding train and they open themselves up to us and we acknowledge them. Thank you so much.
- Television – Seinfeld Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series JASON ALEXANDER: We never do anything without our head writer and he couldn’t be here tonight. He always speaks for us. [Speaking into his phone] Jerry, let’s see if this works. MICHAEL RICHARDS: Jerry! JASON ALEXANDER: [Holds phone up to microphone] Jerry, go ahead. Can you speak up, Jerry. America is watching. Well this has worked as well… What you tell me, I’ll tell them. No, they can’t hear you. No, they can’t hear you. MICHAEL RICHARDS: Translate JASON ALEXANDER: Say something nice. Jerry would like to thank his mother. We’d like to thank Jerry Seinfeld for his outstanding writing regardless of the fact that he’s never been nominated for anything, or won anything in nine years. He is still the richest and best-looking star on television. JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUSS: Thank you. JASON ALEXANDER: We’re very excited. Thank you very much. Thank you. MICHAEL RICHARDS: Thank you very much.
- Elizabeth Taylor SAG Lifetime Achievement Award Not in attendance
Acceptance Speeches Transcripts
5TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
Roberto Benigni Film — Life Is Beautiful Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Thank you. mamma mia! Thank you. Now, I never lost. Because I want to share this with Nick Nolte, Tom Hanks, Joe Fiennes, Ian McKellan. I really learned so much from them that I owe them. This is yours because I learned so much from them. I love you so much… This is really a pleasure, I don’t know, now, maybe I’ve lost because they’ve asked me to work in the United States with this English… I ‘m really afraid… I married a pregnant woman really… for me so deep because now, now I have to do more… So typically there is proof, the proof is Nicoletta Braschi that I married. If I was able to marry her, this means I was really a good actor. This is the proof I am a good actor. Cause actors, they are never alone. So when Nicoletta Braschi and the actors come on and shooting with me. Without them I couldn’t act. They are to me this light, this sky. I have to be thankful that I have this prize for my movie, everything. I am so full of joy that my body is steering everything, every organ in my body is moving in a very bad way and I cannot, I can’t…Full of joy, I don’t deserve so much. Anyway, joy delights joy, exuberance is beauty.
Gwynth Paltrow Film — Shakespeare in Love Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role It’s so heavy, my God. I really, Kate I thought you were going to get it. I was positive, I really, I haven’t prepared anything. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. This is such an honor. To be recognized by my peers and you’ll never know quite what this means to me. There are many people to thank. Starting with Miramax Films, Harvey Weinstein especially. John Madden, the most talented director ever in the history of the whole world. Our extraordinary cast: Simon, Joseph, Judi, Geoffrey and to everybody, the best cast ever. And especially Ben Affleck, my great friend. I would like to thank my agent, Rick Kurtsman, who took me on when I hadn’t done anything and had such faith in me – thank you so much. I would like to thank Steven Bain and Harold Brown and Stuart Gellnard. I would like to dedicate this award to the most beautiful profound actor that I know, my mother, Blythe Danner is the reason I wanted to do this. Mommy I love you so much. Thank you so much.
Robert Duvall Film – A Civil Action Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role [was not in attendance]
Kathy Bates Film – Primary Colors
