Aspiring Actress Gifts

'I want to make a happy home for my family, but I have a strong need to pursue my career as an actress. What a painful conflict for me. If I only had someone to talk to about this.'

'Do you think, perhaps, that we could start shooting for a few longer-term goals around here?'

'They all want to play the star.'

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

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

"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."

'And when your mother said that you would never be an Olympic gymnast, how did that make you feel?'

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

'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.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

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

Children's Imagination

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

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

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

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

Directors chairs on movie set with Model, Actress, and Whatever on them

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

'I don't mind playing dead. But what I would really like to do is direct.'

Stage producer.

"When I grow up I'd like to model for a pasta company."

"This area is popular with would-be actresses and models,we call it 'Silicon Implants'."

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

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

'I told you I'd make you a star.'

"That'll be the day!"

"I'm not sure I'd want fifteen minutes of fame. Mum would only follow it with fifteen minutes of criticism."

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'