00:00The award goes to Noah Wiley.
00:34Somebody had told me that you had to say seven words to get a SAG card, and in 1990 I
00:40got
00:40one line in a television miniseries called Blind Faith with Robert Urich and Joanna Kearns.
00:45One line, five words.
00:47And I spent all morning in my four-banger scheming on how to stretch that out so I could get
00:51my
00:51card, and I improvised, excuse me, what's going on down there?
00:57And then I found out it didn't matter.
01:00But what did matter was getting that card.
01:02This card, which I've had in my wallet for the last 36 years.
01:09I love being an actor.
01:11I love actors working with you, playing with you, and when necessary, marching alongside
01:16of you has been the greatest joy of my life.
01:19I am so grateful to this union and for all the protections and privileges that it affords
01:25me.
01:26And I don't take it for granted, and I don't forget the hard-won fights and battles by giants
01:30who fought before us on whose shoulders I and we all stand.
01:35I'm so grateful for this.
01:36I'm so grateful to the membership of SAG-AFTRA, to the membership of all of our sibling unions,
01:41especially our cast and crew, and to labor unions everywhere.
01:46Thank you so much.
01:47Thank you so much.
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