HENRY SIMMONS: I guess I’ve been elected. We’ve been through ha 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. [Applause]
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 a 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. [Applause]
Wow, get the car. I guess it’s safe to say that ah, indicating from three of the five nominees, that there is life after hair [laugh]. 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. [Applause]
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Cast of Mandy Patinkin
Chicago Hope
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Picket Fences
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
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I just don’t know really how to tell you all how much this means to get an award for acting from actors.
I have to thank David Kelley for seeing me in this role. I think David has written me one of the best roles ever, regardless of gender or any medium actually. I think he knows how I feel about it.
I wanna thank every single person who works on Pickett Fences. I love you all. Thank you for making me look so good. Thank you to my oldest son, who’s here tonight, for keeping my feet on the ground. I don’t know what I would do without you and your beautiful, little brother and your most excellent father. Oh ah, times up it says.
I can hardly carry this thing. I hope you all get to feel this some day. It’s incredibly heavy.
Thank you very much. Thank you. [Applause]
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Sisters
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Murder, She Wrote
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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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 everyday and have as much fun as I do and get paid for it and get things like this (holding up statue). 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. [applause]
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. [Applause]
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 everyday. [Applause] It’s like getting to play the best acting tennis ever, everyday. 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 were here and I’m standing in front of you. I’d like to thank my manager, Connie Tavel, Stephen Huvane, and Adam Venit.
(Accepting this award for Mr. Raul Julia, Mrs. Merel Julia)
MEREL JULIA: 44,43,42…Um Raul was surrounded by many wonderful people from The Burning Season. John Frankenheimer is a great director. The wonderful producer David Cutlem and all the producers at HBO: Robert Cooper, Michael Hughs, and Hutch Parker. His wonderful and incredible cast: Edward James Olmos, Sonja Braga, Bill Mastrosimone, Jose Perez, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Nigel Havers, some wonderful friends there.
He was thrilled to play Chico Mendes, a man of conviction, a man who was committed to human beings. I think you see shinning through his own performance, his own commitment to human beings. That being his commitment that drove him through his adult career, which was the end of hunger and to the millions of people who die of hunger needlessly every year in and year out.
Raul had a wonderful, incredible, fantastic life. He didn’t live as long as many years as I would have wanted him to, but he lived them fully. He was joyous and gave a lot of joy to many people. He was about the only person I know who could sit in a restaurant or maybe even here and all of a sudden burst into song because it bubbled up from inside of him and that was natural for him. And with all of that he would say to me, “I only have the moment, I have to live the moment. And I’m most alive when I’m working, when I’m acting.” So I know that tonight he would be very honored to accept his award from you, his acting peers in the profession he loved so very, very much. And be in the company he was in with all the wonderful actors in his category.
So, from myself, from our children, from Raul’s friends and his family and all of his fans this means a great deal to us. Thank you very, very much. [applause]
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Heart of Darkness
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Stephen King's The Stand
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