Aspiring Actor Gifts

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"Twenty years of acting lessons and all I can get is voiceovers."

'Okay, I'll do one more dog food commercial, but I don't want to get typecast.'

"These people are talented! Such drama! Such flair! And their stories reach millions! That's what I want to be when I grow up!"

"I aspired to be a dog until I was told my panting wasn't up to scratch."

"Actually I'm a waiter but things are pretty slow at the moment and I'm looking for something to fill in between jobs."

"I like you kid, but you're really just a work in progress!"

'Hire my talent'

'They all want to play the star.'

'I...I've forgotten my lines - do you mind reading elsewhere, and come back here later...'

Kate's Evil Plan: 'You only held the angelic smile of faux innocence for ten seconds.'

I'm only a part-time waiter, I'm really an actor.

I got a call from my agent so I have to step out for an audition. I'll be back before you are ready for dessert.

Lousy agent.

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

Waiting to be discovered, or taken to work, whichever comes first...

"When I grow up, I want to be a Presidential impersonator on 'Saturday Night Live.'"

A panhandler with a sign that reads "I'll never work in this town again!".

Koyu Rankin and Liev Schreiber

"Larry and Phil aren't sure what they want to do, but Michael is interested in show business."

"Your Gap ad will come."

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

'We'll send you to acting class when you're older. For now, get up and get ready for school.'

"You want to be a comedian? You can't be serious!"

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

Children's Imagination

A father films his family while imagining himself as a director

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

"If there is no more American Idol what am I going to do to become famous?"

Child steps off chair and says, 'Tough crowd.'(Cat looks impassive)