Pop Culture Dreamer Gifts

"Living...in...the...1970s...must...have...been...DYN-O-MITE!"

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

Elvis Presley

"My mom says I can start a rock band if I call it 'I Love My Mommy.' You in?"

Big screen TV.

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Steve Howe.

Dress for Success suit shop: 'Can I pay you for it later, after I get successful?'

Guitarist: 'We can freely improvise some other time ... now let's practise.' (With Derek it was always jam tomorrow)

'And the Dance Scholarship goes to...'

The world's most unemployable family

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

'I'm sure I could lie on my back waving my feet in the air if I could play the saxophone.'

'I'm a star!'

Children's imagination

'Moses looks back - 'The commandments, the Red Sea, the books of the bible, but I never had a hit song.'

"Have you give any thought to my suggestion about a sculpture that's just a chubby kid constantly peeing."

Jack Nicholson

"Great money scenes!"

"Er. . . anything else?"

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"Music helps with maths... like which song got to number one... which song got to number two..."

"Sorry, you're not cut out to be a mime artist."

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'

"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.'

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

"Write your acceptance speech before winning the award."

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

"Well, now we know what Letterman's doing, what are we doing?"

'Here's looking at you, kid...'

"You'll have to imagine the melody for this next song, too."

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

'I like the way you handle responsibility, Mac, so I'm going to blame some stuff on you.'