Aspiring Celebrity Gifts

"I know I'm good looking, but am I good looking enough to move to California?"

"Looking good! Feeling great! And soon to be famous!"

'It looks like your fifteen minutes of fame is about over.'

"Ambitions... to find fame or fortune or better still, with a little luck, both of them."

"They're making my web-page into a movie!"

"We just want you to have something to fall back on, in case being famous for nothing in particular doesn't work out."

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

'I was only famous for 14 and a half minutes.'

'Are you actively seeking celebrity status?'

'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.'

I used to want my name in lights. Now I want my face on a Jumbotron.

'Someday, you'll be a big star!'

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

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

'They all want to play the star.'

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

"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."

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

'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?"

'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.'

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

Children's Imagination

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?"

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Tom Cruise

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

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

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

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

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

"That'll be the day!"