Aspiring Rapper Mugs

"Okay...I'll leave you to practice your rap for a bit. And don't be nervous or anything. This is where you work out the kinks! And hey...if things don't work out with Estella, feel free to keep the doll!"

"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'."

Rap music

"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?"

Jeff Beck.

'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."

"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.''

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.

Children's Imagination

"Next, I'd like to play 'Guantanamera.'"

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

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?"

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

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

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

"I think your guitar's broken. No matter what you play, it sounds the same."

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

"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'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.

"She gets her musical ability from me."

"That'll be the day!"

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

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

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"