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There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year. -- Steve Guttenberg
When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York. -- Marla Maples
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman. -- Steve Guttenberg
I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood. -- Felicia Day
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
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
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. -- Penelope Spheeris
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
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
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
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
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. -- Donna Rice
I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting. -- Felicia Day
Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline between the end of 'Eye of the North' and the beginning of 'Guild Wars 2.' -- Jeff Grubb
I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union. -- Michael Moore
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. -- John Frankenheimer
In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.' -- Bill Bryson
You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service. -- Eli Roth
The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. -- Scott Turow
Guild doesn't like me." "That's true." "He doesn't like you, ether." "That is mystifying. -- Derek Landy
You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card. -- Paul Newman
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception. -- Brent Spiner
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The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh -- Nalini Singh
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. -- K.J. Parker
Ya called Fargo yet?""No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. -- Jana Oliver
Ya called Fargo yet?" "No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job. -- Jana Oliver
If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side. -- Nalini Singh
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there. -- Donna Rice
When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer. -- Harold Ramis
I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything. -- Rod Serling
In 'Guild Wars 2,' the dragons are the greatest threat, but there's so much more going on. It's a living world; it's a dynamic world. There are places where you find your piece of earth, and you can develop and play with it. -- Jeff Grubb
In the original 'Guild Wars,' one of the big conflicts was the humans versus the charr. The humans and charr are both playable races in 'Guild Wars 2,' and they are on the same side, more or less. They don't hate each other. -- Jeff Grubb
There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists. -- Jay Roach
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career. -- Rod Serling
Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through. -- Jeff Grubb
I would love for models to be protected by a guild. -- Tyra Banks
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. -- Conrad Black
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. -- Seamus Heaney
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. -- Erica Jong
My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!' -- Jojo Moyes
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners. -- Sherwood Schwartz
I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it. -- Scott Turow
If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say. -- Hiro Mashima
If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say. -- Hiro Mashima
Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril. -- Janet Morris
...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.? -- Kenneth W. Royce
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... -- Aldous Huxley
For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship. -- Beryl Markham
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?" -- Paul Bloom

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