Amanda Bynes Biography

The squirrel-cheeked young actress Amanda Bynes rose to fame on Nickelodeon and moved on to the WB network for her teenage years. In 1996, she became a regular cast member on the kid's sketch comedy show All That, which first earned her a growing fan base of adoring admirers. Sticking with Nickelodeon-style broad comedy, she was a panelist on the game show Figure It Out as well as host for the popular variety show The Amanda Show, which won several Kid's Choice awards. After lending her voice to the long-running cartoon Rugrats, Bynes made the big switch from the PG world of Nickelodeon to the PG-13 world of the WB with a part on the short-lived series The Nightmare Room, narrated by author R.L. Stine. The next year she made her feature film debut in the comedy Big Fat Liar as the best friend of fellow young superstar Frankie Muniz. In 2002, she launched the WB sitcom What I Like About You, playing a comedic younger sister who moves into the trendy Upper West Side apartment of her straight-laced older sister (Jennie Garth from Beverly Hills 90210). Widely released one day after her 17th birthday, the romantic comedy What a Girl Wants marked her first major starring role and showcased her Sandra Bullock-style pratfalls as lead Daphne, a girl who goes to England in search of her father (Colin Firth) and finds romance. The undistinguished Just One of the Guys retread She's the Man followed in 2006, a year before she landed a plum supporting role in the big-budget musical remake of Hairspray. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

• 1. Aunt Fanny: Hey kids get a load of this. [farts]
  2. Piper Pinwheeler: Uh.... Aunt Fanny we were using our arms.
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• 1. Marianne: Jesus tells us to love everyone, even the whores and the homosexuals. But it's so hard, it's so hard because they keep doing it, over and over again.
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• 1. Penny Pingleton: [kisses seaweed] I've tasted chocolate and I'm not going back!
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• 1. Piper Pinwheeler: The name is Piper, rhymes with viper. [hisses like a snake]
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• 1. Marianne: There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.
  2. Olive Penderghast: Tom Cruise?
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• 1. Piper Pinwheeler: Just stick with me, kid. I know this town like the back of my hand. [sees something on his hand] Hey, that's new! [gets blown off his feet by a giant hammer]
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• 1. Piper Pinwheeler: My name is Piper, rhymes with super... grrrrr.
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• 1. Marianne: There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.
  2. Olive Penderghast: Tom Cruise?
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• 1. Marianne: Looks like someone's on a downward spiral. [stapling papers]
  2. Olive Penderghast: Looks like someone's practicing the mundane activity she'll be saddled with the rest of her pathetic life.
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• 1. Olive Penderghast: If he's soooo smart, why is your boyfriend 22 years old and still in high school?
  2. Marianne: Because, Olive, it's his choice.
  3. Olive Penderghast: Oh really? His choice? He just *wants* to be repeating his senior year for the fourth time because he can't pass a single test?
  4. Marianne: No, Silly, (points upward) His. His with a capital H, if the good lord wanted Micah to graduate, He would have given him the right answers.
  5. Olive Penderghast: (laughs) I'm sorry. but i mean really you gotta be shittin' me woman!
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• 1. Marianne: There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecencies.
  2. Olive Penderghast: Tom Cruise?
  From Easy A. Submitted by Amanda S (13 months ago)