Screen Actors Guild Quotes & Sayings

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York. — Marla Maples

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers. — Timothy Olyphant

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year. — Steve Guttenberg

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default. — George C. Marshall

Access to a college degree is critical. — John Sharp

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter. — Persis Khambatta

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage. — Howard Schultz

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — A.P. Herbert

Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card. — Kato Kaelin

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. — Naomi Wolf

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. — Baden Powell De Aquino

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving. — Julianna Margulies

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old. — John Sayles

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women. — Melanie Mayron

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman. — Steve Guttenberg

You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I thought, Dad.
Could I go to Vietnam for you?
Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of your heart and soul left behind. If I bring them back, would it heal your pain?
Dad, you gave me life. You made possible every good thing in my life. Why do you insist on fighting your nightmares and memories and monsters alone?
You don't have to do it alone, Dad. I could help you fight.
Dad, you know what?
I'll be back before you find out so you don't have to be afraid. I'm going to Vietnam. — Tucker Elliot

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception. — Brent Spiner

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls. — Neal Shusterman

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card. — Paul Newman

There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country. — James Garner

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. — Orson Welles