Aspiring Talent Gifts

'How do you expect me to fine tune my act if you keep taking me to the principal's office?

"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."

"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.'

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

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

"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."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

Children's Imagination

'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...

A push in the right direction: 50c.

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

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

'I couldn't practice last night on account of my Dad's head was gonna' explode.'

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

'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.'

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

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

"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!"

"She gets her musical ability from me."

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

'I told my teacher that I won't be returning to school. I'm trying out for a pro basketball team, and her services are no longer required.'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'