Why ‘Annie’ star Aileen Quinn gave up on Hollywood at just age 18
nypost.comwanted a better “Tomorrow.” Quinn, now 50, decided to take a break from Tinseltown when she hit 18.Quinn beat out over 8,000 girls for the role of Annie and scored the gig when she was just 9 years old.
Albert Finney, Tim Curry, Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters also starred in the film.She divulged why she skipped out on Hollywood in an interview with Fox News, noting she wanted to explore the world.She revealed that her parents felt that education was very important and they were “strict” on her to get three hours of school a day.“When I came back from filming, my teachers didn’t cut me any breaks,” Quinn said. “Don’t get me wrong, they loved it, they were happy for me, and they wanted my autograph, too, but they were like, ‘Welcome back to test-taking.
Be your usual A+ student.'”The singer stated that she had been under contract in the early 1980s and was able to do theater and even recorded an album, “Bobby’s Girl,” for Columbia Records.“But after that, I wanted to get back to some normalcy.
I wanted to go to college and explore my other options,” Quinn explained. “I wanted to learn about the world. I lived in a foreign country and got to experience that for a while.
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