Aspiring Actress Gifts

So close... Yet so far.

'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."

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

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

"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.'

Children's Imagination

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

Mr. K's essay is such a drag! Yeah, but I've got to do really well. Twig! You're such a grind! Am not! Life isn't only about grades. I know! But he's directing the spring musical. And my singing won't get me the part all by itself! English: Gateway to the Grammys.

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

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

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack Writes A Top Ten Hit

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.

"That'll be the day!"

"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'."

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

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

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

I'm trying out for the spring play. You'll be great! Ha! You'll be grateful to be an usher, Meryl Creep. Yeah. The good parts go to real actors. Sigh. The arts are sooo uplifting.

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