I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.
I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
I went to an acting class for 3 years. But then I figured out that, since there were already 26,000 actors in SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I could make a better living as a stunt man.
I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card.
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.
My SAG card was from doing 'Blue Bloods,' an episode called 'Justice Served.'
When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
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.
Chefs don't have a union. We don't have a Screen Actor's Guild.
I got my SAG card quite unexpectedly. I was here in Los Angeles doing a play called 'Vanities' - it was 1976, I believe - and I got invited by Dustin Hoffman, whom I'd met in New York, to come audition for a movie he was directing.
Unifying the legacy SAG and AFTRA contracts was essential, and I am very pleased that we were able to achieve that.
My SAG card, the first TV job that I ever had was 'Pan Am' as a reporter. But that may not be entirely true. I did some motion capture work, doing reshoots on a video game.
It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.
Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.
I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.
For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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.
I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.
As an actor, I get my insurance from the Screen Actor's Guild by union, and you have to make so much every year to get that type 1 insurance.
I got my SAG card doing commercials.
It used to just be a SAG card, and then you got an AFTRA card. I got my AFTRA card doing a commercial in Atlanta. I got my SAG card doing a beer commercial from 100 years ago; it was one of the first national commercials with a family in it that was black and normal, and I played the daughter.
