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2015 SAG Awards Quotes That Show Actors Are Great Off-Script Too
The Screen Actors Guild Awards is one of the more laid-back events of the season, which means that the stars who attend get a little bit more loose with what they say on stage. (How lucky for all of us watching at home!) The 2015 SAG Awards are already proving to be a memorable night, with some choice quotes from the actors and actresses attending the ceremony.
From Olive Kitteridge leading lady Frances McDormand telling it like it is to Orange is the New Black star Uzo Aduba's beautiful acceptance speech to Birdman star Zach Galifianakis' hilarious realization during that oh-so-awkward "I'm an actor" opening segment, we're keeping track of all the best things that have been said at the 2015 SAG Awards.
Zach Galifianakis
“My name is Zach Galifianakis… and I’m an actor?”
Uzo Aduba
“The day I got this job was the day I had stopped acting… and to be in a room with all of you amazing human beings, amazing talents for what I respect and love so much, is really, truly the greatest honor.”
William H. Macy
“I’ve written so many great acceptance speeches that I never got to give… but not tonight!”
Patricia Arquette
“I’m a fourth generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine. My father Lewis Arquette taught me to approach work with compassion and gratitude, and taught me how hard it is to make a living as an actor.”
J.K. Simmons
“I would like to thank my extraordinary wife Michelle Schumacher. We met 24 years ago as actors together on Broadway and sixteen years ago she became a full-time mother to our above-average children. And after many, many years of doing that she’s now stepped to the other side of the camera, writing, directing, and producing, which is awesome, because it’s more jobs for me, because I’m sleeping with the director.”
Frances McDormand
“This is a celebration, right? We’re celebrating…I am proclaiming if you haven’t seen Olive Kitteridge, you need to. You can stream it, I don’t know how. You can watch it on an intercontinental flight, I’ve been told. You can get the DVDs on February 9 and give it to someone as a Valentine’s Day present.”
Debbie Reynolds
“I ain’t down yet!”
Viola Davis
“It starts from the top, up. So I’d like to think Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Bill D’Elia, and Pete Norwalk for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark skinned African-American woman who looks like me.”
Eddie Redmayne
“Thank you you for reminding me of the overwhelming power of the will to love and the will to live every second of your life as fully and as passionately as possible.”
Julianne Moore
“When I was on As the World Turns—yeah!—I was so excited when they wrote two parts for me. You know, the classic twin sister role: the good and the evil one. I couldn’t wait to do it and I was so excited and I realized it was super boring to act by myself. ”
Edward Norton
“As Dorothy Parker said, ‘Age before beauty.’ So ladies and gentleman, Michael Keaton.”
