Aspiring Singer Gifts

Make your own pop band kit (only 3 month guarantee)

'But Mum, I don't want to learn how to dance: I want to be a singer...'

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

"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."

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

"What do you want to be when you blow up?"

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

'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."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

'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...

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

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

"She gets her musical ability from me."

"That'll be the day!"

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

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

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."

"I owe my success to him. I figured, if he can make it, so can I."

"If you work hard enough, and find the right reality show, you can grow up to be anything you want."

Shouting