Model, Actor?

My eight year-old (who really needs to go to bed but it's Friday night so what the heck) just came and harassed me about the same thing he's been harassing me about for the past month.

"Do you think I'd be a good model?"

Other variations of this painful line of questioning also include:

"Do you think I could be an actor?"

"Can I take acting classes?"

"I think I'd make a good model, don't you?"

"I want to be a model when I grow up. Or an actor. Or I could do both, right?"

"Do you think I should do action or comedy movies?"

"Could I be one of those actors on the Disney channel?"

"I could be a pretty good model, like the ones in those magazines you get, Mommy."

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! Red Alert! Red Alert! Patient is infected by Hollywood air! Call 911!!!

So, my non-commital response has been, "I thought you wanted to be an astronaut or some sort of scientist."

He replies, "Well, yeah, I could do that, too, but I first I wanna be a model or an actor."

"Well, why do you want to do that?" I ask, because I figure it's better to, you know, ask why instead of rattling off all the reasons he might not want to get involved in the "industry". I mean, he did some modeling for American Apparel back when he was almost three and he was great at it, but the people scared me more than a little.

My boy says wants to do this because he likes that actors and models get to travel, dress up in cool clothes and pretend to be a bunch of different characters.

"Johnny Depp gets to get to be Captain Jack Sparrow... and that's so cool, and I could do that too!"

A part of me thinks, well, why not let him have a go at it? And then the sane part of me says that 1) I don't even know where I'd start to get him down that road and 2) that road would be a sure recipe for disaster.

I have a feeling he's gonna harass me all summer about this. What to do, what to do?

In the meantime, I'm going to make my boy go to bed. And me too.