Acceptance Speech Highlights: Part 6

Tina Fey and Julianne Moore to wrap up the last of our "Acceptance Speech Highlights," offering words of gratitude for their friends and their team:

"I share this with everyone else in our cast. With Jane and Tracy and Judah and Alec, and Keith and Scott and everybody. I feel like, I also want to say I share this with my sweet friend, Amy Poehler who I’ve known for so long. I’ve stolen many of your moves. Amy, I’ve known you since you were pregnant with Lena Dunham. I’ve known you so long."

— Tina Fey, Female Actor in a Comedy Series

"This means so much to me coming from all the actors who voted. It’s really, really meaningful. And thank you for putting me in the company of these amazing actresses, all of whom I admire so very much. You know, we watch a lot of basketball in my family and we talk constantly about what it takes to win a championship. And it’s not about individual achievements, it’s really about the team.
So, I had the tremendous good fortune of being on a wonderful acting team."

— Julianne Moore, Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

Acceptance Speech Highlights: Part 5

"As a brand spanking – or 'Spanxing' – new mom, I keep finding myself referring to the cliché of “It takes a village to raise a child.” And the same is very much true of making a television series. And it means everything to be here with my buddies, my cast, my brilliant cast."

— Claire Danes, Female Actor in a Drama Series

"Oh my God! This is ridiculous. So again I have to say thank you to Tina and to all of our writers, great, great writers; it’s the end of our show, which is sad, everybody’s sad about that. It was the greatest experience I’ve ever had. … And my agent Matt DelPiano from CAA asked me to thank him, and to mention that he was the greatest agent in the history of show business. And I want to say now that I’m out of a job and I’m unemployed, Matt DelPiano is the greatest agent in the history of show business."

— Alec Baldwin, Male Actor in a Comedy Series

Acceptance Speech Highlights: Part 4

"We are so honored to be nominated against the brilliant casts of 'Glee' and 'Nurse Jackie,' 'Big Bang' ratings – 'Theory.' But also I think we’d be doing the evening a great disservice if we didn’t mention the brilliant departing cast of '30 Rock' and 'The Office.' You all have set the comedy bar so high, and if we can just be half as brilliant and smart and wonderful as you are, then we’ve succeeded.
We’re all fans of yours, except for Aubrey, she has no idea who you guys are. But if we can absorb any of you into our cast, if you need jobs, please call our casting director, Jeff Greenberg."

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson, on behalf of the cast of "Modern Family," Ensemble in a Comedy Series

"Thank you. Oh, it is so good to be bad.
I am so pleased and so honored to receive this award. I’d love to thank our very courageous network, AMC, and our all- supportive studio, Sony Television. Our writers, directors, our beautiful crew in New Mexico who work so hard. Also, Vince Gilligan who wrote … the role of my career and I am forever grateful to you, sir."

— Bryan Cranston, Male Actor in a Drama Series

Acceptance Speech Highlights: Part 3

“Thank you. I’m just so thrilled I have dental. I got my SAG card when I was 14. It felt like the beginning of the world. I have loved every single minute of my life as an actor, and I have been the recipient of so much kindness and support from actors in this room and out of it."

— Anne Hathaway, Female Actor in a Supporting Role

 

“We are so not expecting this. Oh! Shut the French windows, honestly. Oh! … all our fellow Downtonians who can’t be here, we’re really sorry and wish they were. But we wouldn’t be a proper ensemble without our crew who are amazing. And they’re as much part of it as we are. So, here’s to our crew.”  

— Phyllis Logan, on behalf of the cast of "Downton Abbey," Ensemble in a Drama Series

Acceptance Speech Highlights: Part 2

"The people you see on stage, we had more than a hundred and fifty actors. They spoke in English, they spoke in Farsi, and the one thing that they had in common was that they came to work every single day, whether they had a line or a look to somebody, or two lines or 10 lines, or a bunch of stuff I couldn’t understand in Farsi, and they wanted to 'kill' it to make the movie better.
Because that’s what actors do all over the world, every day.”

— Ben Affleck, on behalf of the cast of "Argo," Cast in a Motion Picture

 “And now I have this naked statue that means that some of you even voted for me. And that is an undescribable feeling. Thank you. And I want to thank David. You made a movie for your son, so that he wouldn’t feel alone and so that he could feel understood. And I think I can speak on behalf of most of us in saying that you helped more than your son. You’ve helped so many sons and daughters and…cousins, wives, everybody.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, Female Actor in a Leading Role

Acceptance Speech Highlights from the 19th Annual SAG Awards

Although the SAG Awards was more than a week ago, we can't help but revisit the honorees' amazing and even touching acceptance speeches. This week, we will be highlighting two honorees every day. So check back for more of our favorite moments from Award night!

 

"You know, I’ve knocked around in this business 70 years, and I still haven’t quite figured out what it is I do. But it’s been – the years have just been full of surprises for me. And a lot of fun. Aren’t we lucky to have found a line of work that doesn’t require growing up?"

­—Dick Van Dyke, while accepting his Life Achievement Award at the 19th SAG Awards

 

"And when I was prowling around the idea and wondering whether I could take the risk of doing it, for some reason the guiding principle of the Hippocratic Oath kept nagging at me: First do no harm. And with that modest but important ambition, I set out.
And then it occurred to me that it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln. And therefore somehow it’s only fitting that every now and then an actor tries to bring him back to life again. ... I’m terribly proud to have been allowed to carry the baton for a while and now to pass it on."

­— Daniel Day-Lewis, Male Actor in a Leading Role