It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
I can try new genres because I know there are fans who will always be there to support what I would like to pursue.
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.
The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.
I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.
I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
