Milton Berle

Actors, personally, should thank an S.A.G. or a Screen Writers Guild or AFTRA or whatever they may be, for protecting them. Actors are a strange breed. They'll undercut each other just to get the part, possibly on account of the bread, or to further their career—they'll undercut each other and they'll cut each others throats. Not on purpose. But the protection comes on account of the bylaws of the Screen Actors Guild—they can't do that. So in the earlier days, before 1933, they used to do that. The nightclub actors or vaudeville actors used to undercut each other: I'll play that club date. Well, its a club date that only pays $400. Listen I'll take it for two. Which puts the other actor out of work. And that's why its good to have an S.A.G. It protects the actor all-round, contractually. It also protects the actor from the other actor. And with the actor not knowing it, it protects himself.