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'."

What else is there to wish for?

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

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

'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.'

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

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"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."

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

Children's Imagination

"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.

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

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

'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..."

'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.'

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

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

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

"That'll be the day!"

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