Professional Hiatus Quotes

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

I did not work for a year after 'Margarita With a Straw'.

The time that I took between 'Cocktail' and 'Happy Bhaag Jayegi,' a lot of people told me, 'out of sight is out of mind,' and I was like 'Okay, maybe.' And it did happen. Because I wasn't around, people just assumed I was doing other things and was not interested in films which I thought was unfair.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.

You can't not do stand-up for seven years and then not expect anyone else to come along. That's life, things move on.

I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

When I took a couple of years to do the documentaries after I left 'American Morning' - what was I gone for, five years? - I didn't feel that I was floating under the radar.

There's a perception in the industry that if the actor is not working or has taken a timeout, he or she has left the film circuit.

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.