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Amanda Bynes, the 21-year-old star “Sydney White,” which opens in theaters Friday, has been getting laughs for much of her life.
Acting professionally since she was 10, Bynes has been compared to legendary slapstick comedienne Lucille Ball. But to hear her tell it, “that was always sort of my personality. “I was always a goofy kid who always tried to make people laugh. Maybe it is just a gene I have, the need to sort of, like, to crack jokes,” Bynes said during a Herald interview.
Her dad’s a dentist and older brother and sister both college grads, yet Bynes hasn’t opted for college. But as an actress who has successfully navigated her way from kid star to young Hollywood’s A list, Bynes learned the power of choosing wisely.
“I turn down things that people would tell me not to turn down. But I sort of look at myself as an odd bird. I have always gone my own way,” she said. “I know a lot of girls who feel like they need to take every project because they don’t know when the next one is. I always feel like if I don’t get another one, then I’ll enjoy my life, go to Italy and take a cooking class.”
This summer Bynes scored as Penny Pingleton, a teen discovering romance in 1962 Baltimore in “Hairspray.” She won kudos as a girl passing as a boy opposite Channing Tatum in 2006’s “She’s the Man” and on the WB’s four-season TV hit, “What I Like About You.”
“Sydney White,” a comic update of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” lets Bynes spoof the fairy tale as Sydney goes off to college. “It’s tongue-in-cheek, and that’s why I liked it, because it was sort of modern with computers and Web sites and whatnot,” said Bynes.
09-17-2007, 09:50 PM
Boston Herald Sydney White Interview 
