STEVE BUSCEMI: [lifts four children in the air] That’s it, I got nothing. Martin Scorsese! [laughter] Thank you. [laughs] We are so honored, we love doing the show. Terry Winter, thank you so much for giving us all these incredible parts to play. Meredith Tucker, our wonderful casting director, everybody at HBO, Richard Plepler, Michael Lombardo, Sue Naegle, all of our representation. We want to thank all our agents and our managers, I’m sure. Give me their names, I got time. I got eight seconds. [laughter]
Thank you. This is such an honor to be standing in front of all you wonderful actors. Screen Actors Guild, thank you so much on behalf of all of us. Thank you. [applause] And Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson! [applause]
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MODERN FAMILY (ABC)
AUBREY ANDERSON-EMMONS/ Lily
JULIE BOWEN/ Claire
TY BURRELL/ Phil
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON/ Mitchell
NOLAN GOULD/ Luke
SARAH HYLAND/ Haley
ED O'NEILL/ Jay
RICO RODRIGUEZ/ Manny
ERIC STONESTREET/ Cameron
SOFIA VERGARA/ Gloria
ARIEL WINTER/ Alex
NOLAN GOULD: I think it was the late, great W.C.Fields who said, “Never work with kids or animals.” Well, he can kiss my— [cast members cover Nolan’s mouth and pull him away from microphone] [laughter]
RICO RODRIGUEZ: On behalf of the entire cast and crew, the writers and the producers, and all the great guest cast we had on our show this year, we just want to thank you for letting us all be a part of all your families.
NOLAN GOULD: Animals? Really? Do I get a beef treat for all this? Nooo.
ARIEL WINTER: Okay, okay. We honestly have the greatest jobs any actor could ever ask for. The opportunity that we get to make people laugh each week is, you know, we take that very seriously. And thank you to Jeff Greenberg and his casting associate Allen Hooper, our amazing casting directors who brought us to Chris and Steve three years ago.
GOULD: And also… I’m good, guys. [laughter] Thank you to the unions. See? For making sure we’re properly fed, have all our shots, cleaned, and are put in our pens each night by sundown. [laughter]
WINTER: Okay, okay.
RODRIGUEZ: Thank you SAG memberships for voting for us. We really appreciate it. Thank you.
WINTER: Thank you.
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STEVE BUSCEMI/ Enoch “Nucky” Thompson- “BOARDWALK EMPIRE” (HBO)
STEVE BUSCEMI: Wait, thank you for checking my wine, Tina. But I have to thank our executive producer, Martin Scorsese. You can drink… [laughter] [applause] And – oh God – to my fellow nominees, congratulations. The Screen Actors Guild, this is really an honor to be amongst everyone in this room tonight. Thank you so much to HBO for supporting us. Terry Winter, I will thank you [applause] till my dying day. But please don’t kill me, I don’t want to die prematurely.
Tim Van Patten, Eugene Kelly, all the writers, directors and producers, our crew, Meredith Tucker, our casting director, my fellow actors who are all here, except for some. Kelly Macdonald, Shea Whigham, Anthony Laciura, Michael Kenneth Williams and everyone here. And also our kids are here. Thank you all for being here. Josie and Lucy Gallina, Rory and Declan McTighe and Brady and Connor Noon, wonderful actors.
Also to the late, great Tom Aldridge who played our dad, we miss you. [applause] And to our dearly departed this season, Robert Clohessy, William Hill, Dabney Coleman, Aleksa Palladino, and Michael Pitt, we love you. And to all the Michael Pitt fans out there – I know, I’m sorry, please stop yelling at me on the street. [laughter]
Thank you so much. And to my wife, Jill, thank you. Thank you. [applause]
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Male Actor in a Drama Series
Cast of Kyle Chandler
Friday Night Lights
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Cast of Bryan Cranston
Breaking Bad
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Breaking Bad
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JESSICA LANGE: Well, this is…this is such a pleasure coming from the actors. It means the world to me, so I thank you. Thank you to F/X and all the crazy, wild, imaginative people who put this thing together. It was a real leap of faith for me to jump into it, but it’s been a wonderful ride. It’s great to play such a big character with so much to do.
And I want to thank specifically the writers. I want to thank the directors. I would love to thank Ryan Murphy for his special attention to this character. And mostly I want to thank the other actors. Sometimes, you know, you go to work and it’s…it’s thrilling, and that’s what makes us continue to do it. So, I thank you for your generosity. I thank you for making my work better and…to be an actor means everything to me. So, thank you so much.
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Female Actor in a Drama Series
Cast of Julianna Margulies
The Good Wife
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The Good Wife
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ALEC BALDWIN: Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!! Oh my God!!! Hey, Kristen. Oh my God! [laughter] I just want to say, the only thing this means to me is that obviously you people love Tina’s writing and you love Robert Carlock’s writing. I want to have a big round of applause because everybody… [applause] in television – it is not going to work unless you have great writing. I mean, no offense to everybody else here, but we have the greatest writing. We have the greatest writers. We have Tina and Robert Carlock and John Riggi and Hubbard and Burditt and all these people, and Kay and Tracey, too many to name.
And it’s been a real pleasure, it’s been a real honor, and I just want to say, this is so amazing to me to have this happen so many times in a row. I’m so happy, I’m so touched. And this year I was asked to be ambassador—I’ll put in a plug for the SAG Foundation – I was asked to be ambassador – hey, Brad – of the SAG Foundation. [applause] Which does a lot of outside work, chief among which is their literacy program, Book Pals. Why don’t you check that out online, Book Pals, and do what you can do to help the SAG Foundation?
Thank you all very much, it’s a great pleasure. Thank you.
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Cast of Ty Burrell
Modern Family
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Modern Family
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Cast of Steve Carell
The Office
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The Office
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Cast of Jon Cryer
Two and a Half Men
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Two and a Half Men
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BETTY WHITE/ Elka Ostrovsky- “HOT IN CLEVELAND” (TV Land)
BETTY WHITE: Oh my dears, my dears, my… I don’t think they can read. [laughter] I think they made a terrible mistake. You can’t name me without naming those other wonderful women on “Hot in Cleveland.” This nomination, I was thrilled, of course, but the nomination belongs to four of us. And, please, please, know that I’m dealing them right in with this. I’m not gonna let them keep this, [laughter] but I’ll let them see it. [laughter] Oh, oh I remember you, sweetheart. [laughter] Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
To the Screen Actors Guild and particularly to Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and all the wonderful people on “Hot in Cleveland.” Thank you. [applause]
