Outstanding Lead Actor in A Drama Series
- Michael Chiklis for playing Vic Mackey on The Shield (Episode: "Falling Dominoes")
- James Gandolfini for playing Tony Soprano on The Sopranos (Episode: "Whitecaps")
- Peter Krause for playing Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under (Episode: "Death Works Overtime")
- Martin Sheen for playing Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing (Episode: "Twenty Five")
- Kiefer Sutherland for playing Jack Bauer on 24 (Episode: "Day 2: 10:00pm-11:00pm)
Read more about this topic: 55th Primetime Emmy Awards
Famous quotes containing the words outstanding, lead, actor, drama and/or series:
“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.”
—Ilka Chase (19051978)
“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play is on the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“A personality is an indefinite quantum of traits which is subject to constant flux, change, and growth from the birth of the individual in the world to his death. A character, on the other hand, is a fixed and definite quantum of traits which, though it may be interpreted with slight differences from age to age and actor to actor, is nevertheless in its essentials forever fixed.”
—Hubert C. Heffner (19011985)
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“The womans world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)