Aspiring Model Gifts

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

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

'They all want to play the star.'

"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 wanted to be a baseball player 'til I found out they send you to the showers."

What else is there to wish for?

My coach wants me to go to soccer camp. Focusing on one sport isn't good for you. But mom! I'll develop crucial life skills. Let's see. "Landing endorsements, agents and college sports scholarships." The definition of "crucial".

"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.'

"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.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

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

"Because when you're drafted by the pros, you'll have to be able to sign your contract. That's why you have to attend first grade."

Children's Imagination

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.

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

"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...

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

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

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

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

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

So close... Yet so far.

"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.'

'When you talk about playing, 'at the next level', you mean lawyering, right, not the NBA?'

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

'It's great that you want a career in football, Timothy, but don't you think being a striker would be more fun than being a goalpost.'

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

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

Charlie's medical advice always went in one ear and out the other.

"That'll be the day!"