Chris Pratt Quotes

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

I'm getting out of acting.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

I could easily not act again. It's not a problem.

It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

There is life after acting.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I didn't start acting until after undergrad!

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

The retirement at WrestleMania 32 was a bittersweet moment for me. I was excited to see the next chapter of my life, which is becoming a mother, but at the same time, it was a very historical moment. It was a big part of what the Women's Division has been striving and fighting for.

The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.