Quotes from SAG Awards

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Viola Davis accepts the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for “How to Get Away with Murder”  at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

Quotes from Sunday night's 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles:

"If people are saying I'm the front-runner, that's a beautiful thing. It's more attention for the movie. I'm delighted to be the front-runner, may it all happen." — J.K. Simmons backstage on his status as the favourite to win the supporting-actor Oscar for "Whiplash."

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"Twenty-eight. I had just gotten out of Julliard and thought I could conquer the world. I didn't know better. I didn't know life was going to be hard yet. I liked bathing in that ignorance." — Viola Davis backstage on what age she would choose to stay.

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"She has been more than a mother to me, not much, but definitely more." — Carrie Fisher, presenting the lifetime achievement award to her mother Debbie Reynolds.

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"I can't tell you what this means to me. I'm a fourth-generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine." — Patricia Arquette, supporting actress winner for "Boyhood."

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"When I was 17 I decided I wanted to be an actor. ... I want to say to all you kids in the drama club, you kids are the real actors." — Julianne Moore, leading actress winner for "Still Alice."