Backstage At The Golden Globes: Who Said What?

Laura Dern, Enlightened

On why she didn't have an acceptance speech prepared:
"With Tina Fey and Amy Poehler [nominated], you really know you're not going to win."

Downton Abbey

Cast member Elizabeth McGovern (aka Lady Cora), on the PBS drama's appeal:
"I think people enjoy going into a world without mobile phones and Twitter — although they don't know that Hugh Bonneville [who plays Lord Grantham] tweets between most scenes. [Plus] the writing of Julian Fellows is intoxicating."

Idris Elba, Luther

On forever being attached to The Wire:
"A lot of people don't know my name. They know [my Wire character] Stringer Bell, but they don't know my name. I love the fact that people remember that character."

Claire Danes, Homeland

On playing off-kilter CIA agent Carrie Mathison:
"It's been a real blessing, this role. It's very very unusual that I have a chance to take a character like this on, who's so layered, so dynamic.... I certainly got a workout this season. They asked me to do more than I've ever been asked to do."

Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

On "fantasy" fare getting its due:
"I think we have a handful of the most amazing writers in the business, and they have such great source material. … Hopefully, [awards recognition] will give the genre a lot more respect."

On what makes Thrones so addictive:
You never know what's going to happen. I think that's really smart narrative. You've got to push the envelope and challenge people's expectations of what's going to happen."

Kelsey Grammer, Boss

On taking on such an un-Frasier-like role like crooked Chicago mayor Tom Kane:
"Playing [him] has been the most fun I've ever had."

On his Globes win perhaps boosting the audience for Season 2:
"I'm certainly hoping more eyeballs will find it. Over the next several seasons, I imagine we'll garner an audience."

Homeland

Exec producer Alex Gansa, sharing precious little Season 2 intel:
"Don't expect next season to start right where this one left off. The other thing we know for certain is that the Brody/Carrie relationship is going to be front and center."

Jessica Lange, American Horror Story

On the most difficult aspect of filming Horror Story:
"Getting these long, one-page monologues 12 hours before we had to shoot them. The final monologue that I have in the last episode was something I had to try to nail down in an incredibly short period of time. To me, that's more difficult than any of the physical things."

Modern Family

Julie Bowen, on the anti-gay protesters who had rallied outside the Globes:
"I come from a long line of straight, white Republicans ... and even they like this show."

Series cocreator Steve Levitan, on the show's success:
"We want to maintain this level of quality for as long as we can. If I ever get to the point where I think this is boring, you have permission to hit me over the head with one of these [awards]."

Matt LeBlanc, Episodes

On playing "Matt LeBlanc":
"I don't mind being the brunt of the joke if they're good jokes — and thus far, they've been good jokes."

On the undying Friends movie topic:
"I don't see that happening.... Sex and the City was a single-camera show, like a film.... Friends was about this finite period in six people's lives. Your imagination... is going to do more justice than a movie."

Kate Winslet, Mildred Perce

On one acting challenge that still awaits her:
"I would like to one day play a man. I don't know what kind of a man, but I would be really interested. That probably would be the ultimate challenge."

On talk that Lindsay Lohan may play Elizabeth Taylor in a TV-movie:
"I'll decline to comment because that's the first of heard of that. It's a massive undertaking of anybody who should be fortunate [enough to get the role]."