Thank you, Lizzie, for being prompt. [applause/cheers] Thank you very much. It’s an honor just to be in this room with all of you insanely talented people. I’d like to thank every one of our – the male members of our cast – for giving me the note about growing a beard. [laughter] Except Jared. Way to go, buddy. Way to drop the ball.
It is truly a collaborative effort the making of our show. We wouldn’t be anywhere without our insanely talented staff of writers, our amazing crew that does in seven days what some shows take even longer to do. So, [laughter] we are very happy to be here, very happy to accept this. And thank you all very much. [applause]
JANE LYNCH: We have also the largest cast. My God, you guys, come on. This is unreal. We want to say congratulations to all the other nominees, and we couldn’t be happier to be acting on this show. And to be chosen by our peers means the world to us. We would like to thank Ryan Murphy for giving us the parts of a lifetime. [cast applauds] Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and Ryan for pitching into our strike zone every week. And we thank them so much. And of course, you don’t do this in a vacuum. We want to thank our crew who do in 10 days what should take a month-and-a-half. So, thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you so much to our union for this recognition. Thank you to our writers for their plate-spinning ability and audacity. And thank you as well to our crew who I think have as much to do with the cohesiveness that we manage on this show as anyone. And finally, again, to my cast mates, thank you for your professionalism and your talent, and for your willingness to endure all those awkward pauses while Dexter thinks his voiceover. [laughter]
Thank you to my wife, Jennifer. Thank you for wearing that dress. [laughter] And thank you to my mom for keeping all the most important doors open for me.
Thank you so much to the Screen Actors Guild. It’s such an honor. I wouldn’t be standing here if it weren’t for my brilliant writers: Michelle and Robert King. It’s a privilege to play this role. And it just gets better. You always think TV is so difficult because the pilot, they had a year to write it, and then every episode they only have a week. But you get better and better with every episode, and I’m just thrilled to play this role.
And to Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, Archie Panjabi, Matt CzuchryZukri, Chris Noth, Makenzie Vega, Graham Phillips – oh god, am I missing anyone? I hope not. Josh Charles, did I say him, you guys? I share this all with you. And to my parents, I just have to say, my mother and father call me after every single episode. [laughter] And they’ve been so supportive of me and have such interest in my life, in every role I take – oh except “Snakes on a Plane,” they weren’t... [laughter]…they weren’t so proud of that one. But they’re proud of this one, and I really appreciate your interest.
Thank you so much.
I’m really happy to get an award from Justin Timberlake, but I’m really, really, really happy to get an award from Kate Hudson. [laughter] I just want to say thank you, this is completely unexpected, congratulations to all the other nominees. And thank you to everybody involved with the show. Tina and all of our writers back home, and our crew and our cast, many of whom are here with us. We have a great experience there; we have a great group of people.
But I want to say, especially tonight, that I’m proud to be a member of this union. I’m proud to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild. The work that is done by the union is important work, to benefit people, many of whom are not in this room tonight, and don’t get to star in films and television projects, and so forth. And they rely on the union to work hard for them, for their residuals and their benefits, and so forth, and we have a... [applause] Yeah, thank you.
We have another negotiation coming up very soon, and it’ll be right around the corner, as we all remember. And I just want to say, I am proud, proud, proud to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and thank you very much. [applause]
Oh, my gosh! This is so exciting because every time they play that song, my husband gets fifteen cents! [laughter] So, we got that.
I’m very surprised. I share this with the cast of “30 Rock” and the writers. And I want to thank some of my acting teachers, because I actually did have some. [laughter] Richard Warner and Betsy Tucker at the University of Virginia, in Chicago, Don DiPaolo and Martin DeMott, and the late and very, very mean Del Close. [laughter] And my current acting teacher, Alec Baldwin; I learn from you every single day. My husband Jeff and my sweet, sweet Alice.
And I just wanted to take a moment to say to everyone at NBC, we are very happy with everything. [laughter] [applause] And, happy to be there. So, thank you. [applause]
Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Cast of Julia-Louis Dreyfus
The New Adventures of the Old Christine
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The New Adventures of the Old Christine
Thank you so much for this. Thank you, let’s see, to my brothers and sisters in the Screen Actors Guild for including me with this amazing group of performers. I hope that we are colleagues and not competitors. I want to say thank you to everybody who was involved in the making of “Taking Chance,” from the inception to the broadcast of it. We should all be very proud of this great film.
I want to give a shout-out to Master Sergeant Vic Szalankiewicz. [applause] Vic had the unenviable job of trying to make me look like a Marine. And his real job is even harder. He’s back from his third tour of Iraq and probably on his way down to Haiti. [applause] So, Vic, thanks for your help with this.
And…lastly, I just want to say to my – my beautiful wife and family, you know, we actors, we’ve got to go away sometimes. And, you know, not just like physically, but into the heads and hearts of the characters that we play. So, thanks for trusting that I’ll always find my way back. Thank you. [applause]
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Cast of Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Cast of Jeremy Irons
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Cast of Kevin Kline
GREAT PERFORMANCES: CYRANO de BERGERAC
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GREAT PERFORMANCES: CYRANO de BERGERAC
Um, um, okay. Thank you very much. Again, I’m not used to this, and, um um, um... Okay. But funny, improv is usually a good thing, and it’s backfiring on me very badly right now. I’m someone who – I want to speak from my heart and spontaneously, and this is not going well. Um, I just – I’m very proud to be a member of this Guild, all 120,000 members are just incredible. [applause]
And this started in 1933, and my family was – the Barrymores were acting at that time, and I’m very honored to keep their name alive. And I’m very... [applause]… honored to be in this room with you. And Jessica, to be in your company. And Michael, for you to give me a chance, I’m incredibly indebted. Because we just want so badly to express range and to try things that we never thought we could do, or take risks.
And right now I feel really sick—[laughter—and nervous, and that is a good thing. Because when you feel that way, I think you’re on a good path, at least in a professional sense. [laughter]
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. [applause]
