Alan Rosenberg Quotations

We can definitely use more contributions and the community is a very caring community and has been very good about assisting in the past. We're counting on them to once again come forward and help out.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Actors are frightened little children.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

We need consultation and eventually we need compensation. Whatever happened to artistic integrity? When did we lose the right to say yes or no?

One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.

I am looking forward to leading this organization, to working with our new board and the staff and ensuring Screen Actors Guild is the great and powerful organization it has been and always will be,

I am honored that the members of this great union have placed their confidence in me. I ran a campaign that offered a simple and straightforward promise -- I will fight like hell to get actors their fair share.

I am honored, excited and ready to run. I believe in more transparency within the Screen Actors Guild. I don't believe in spin.

Today, ABC advised the guild that it intends to pay residuals to performers based on the videocassette formula -- a formula that does not apply to this new platform. ABC's actions are flatly inconsistent with our collective-bargaining agreements and with labor law obligations and fail to fairly compensate performers for the use of their work and images.

Just as there is an established right to truth in advertising, there should be a similar right to truth in programming where advertising is concerned.

We really are looking for a fair deal and believe there is one to be made here. We were there for them while this business was growing and are hoping they'll be here for us now.

We have become weak as a union, giving in to a series of rollbacks and buy-outs at a time when the entertainment industry is recording record profits; profits that will continue to grow with new technology, ... If we truly expect to earn our livings as actors, we need to stand up and fight for a fair and livable wage.

We have great respect for Greg and are grateful to him for his service to the guild, ... We wish him well.

While the increase in roles for performers over 40 and in roles for Asian/Pacific Islanders is encouraging, overall casting trends continue to disappoint. We will continue working to ensure that those doing the hiring have more exposure to the vast diversity of talent that exists among the guild's membership.

The recent election made clear that our membership expects concrete results, particularly in our collective bargaining and our nationwide organizing efforts.

Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

The sharp increase of product placement in film and television too often takes place without any compensation to the very performers that are expected to push those products -- and more often is done without any consultation with those performers and their representatives. It is time for producers to work with artists on this issue, and the best way to do that is to establish a cooperative code of conduct that will protect the artist, the viewing public and advertiser-supported, free television.

The statistics this year are again disturbing and the industry must begin to address this downward trend.

This is a significant and well-deserved victory for the many actors who work under this contract, specifically day performers. I'm proud of the work done by our negotiating committee and staff, who were able to improve this contract for the first time in two decades. This demonstrates that producers and performers can work together to achieve results that benefit both sides and keep our industry moving forward.

A lot of the single moms just living paycheck to paycheck are finding it difficult.

They want to form partnerships with our employers rather than stand up and fight for our fair share. What we want to do is stay at the bargaining table and go for the best deal we can get.

I really feel a need to do something for my fellow actors,