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HOLLY WOOD PHOTO ARCHIVE/MEDIAPUNCH/SHUT TERSTOCK KOBAL /SHUT TERSTOCK KOBAL /SHUT TERSTOCK Clint Eastwood "I got in the Screen Actors Guild back in the early '50s, and Walter Pidgeon was the president then," recalled 39th recipient Eastwood. "I remember calling my parents and saying that I'm in the same union with Walter Pidgeon, Cagney and Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis … I thought I was hot stuff, until I started knocking on doors and getting the turndowns. So I appreciate everything that all of you have had to go through at some time in your life." Kirk Douglas "You know what? When they first spoke to me about this award, lifetime achievement, I was scared. I saw a committee going over my medical file: 'We have to give him something,'" joked 35th honoree Douglas. "Well, maybe then they learned that I have just finished a movie, they might want to take the award back! But what the hell, I am young, I have made 82 movies." 1994 George Burns 1995 Robert Redford 1996 Angela Lansbury 1997 Elizabeth Taylor 1998 Kirk Douglas 1999 Sidney Poitier 2000 Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee 2001 Edward Asner 2002 Clint Eastwood 2003 Karl Malden