Former Teen Star Amanda Bynes Retires from Acting at Age 24

Newsday ^ | 06/21/2010 | Frank Lovece

[SeekAndFind]

I think Shirley Temple quit at a much earlier age.

[Tainan]

We got rules here ya know.....




(I have no idea who this person is.)

[SeekAndFind]

ACTRESS AMANDA BYNES

[onona]

Smartest move of her life, tho she may not know it yet....

[cripplecreek]

Personally I’m glad to see her making this decision. She could linger like the smell of old fish for years but unlike Lindsay Lohan she chooses to walk away.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

ping

[Perdogg]

I wonder what kind of work she will do.

[max americana]

She’ll be back in the biz, probably orchestrated by her agent...

Here in Hollywood, you need some serious cash to make ends meet. I admit, she’s got good looking pair..

[Frantzie]

She appears to be a nice young lady. I hope she has a happy life. Hollywood is a snake pit.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

My kids used to watch her show on Nickelodeon - I kind of liked it, thought she was a funny and talented kid.

She sure has grown up pretty - wonder if she was being pressured to be more sluttish?

[Dr. Sivana]

I think Shirley Temple quit at a much earlier age.

Yes, but not by much. (not counting the much later "Shirley Temple Theatre" on TV)

[scott7278]

I always saw her as classy, and I wish her well in her normal life away from the falseness of Hollywood.

[PapaBear3625]

Hopefully, she’s got enough money wisely invested that she doesn’t need to work, will marry some great guy, and decide to raise a bunch of kids.

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder what kind of work she will do.

Hard to guess.

If she's smart enough to get out of THE BIZ while she is young, then she's obviously intelligent.

Maybe she can find some niche and develop her own company.

[TruthHound]

It was either obscurity or rehab. She made the right choice.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Go to college?

Marry some rich dude?

[PapaBear3625]

Amanda was a child star in the Nickelodeon cable channel.

She growed up real good:

[fieldmarshaldj]

"She could linger like the smell of old fish"

Summer's Eve will take care of that problem in a jiffy.

[DemforBush]

Carrie Henn (Newt from Aliens) quit at ten, though she only did the one movie, so maybe that doesn’t really count.

[fieldmarshaldj]

She’s got the bod for... uh... more horizontal work.