Who Will Quit Hollywood Next?

Acting in solidarity with laid-off workers, Hollywood’s pampered actors are quitting their well-paid gigs for less glamorous ones: Joaquin Phoenix quit acting for music, Clint Eastwood quit acting for directing, and, in a shocking development, Angelina Jolie announced that “I don’t plan to keep acting very long.� But this could be just the first wave of self-imposed layoffs. Who’s next? Alec Baldwin, Pamela Anderson, and Mena Suvari, for starters. After the jump, we list 24 actors who may quit next.

Clint Eastwood: “[Gran Torino] will probably be my last. I’ll be drummed out of it after this one. Every time you do a movie you think, ‘Aw, that’s enough of that.’�

Joaquin Phoenix: “This will be my last performance as an actor.�

Freddie Prinze Jr.: ‘I’m going to stop acting in the next few years because it’s just too weird.�’

Sean Connery: “The time has come because of my rather unfortunate last movie. The cost to me in terms of frustration and avoiding going to jail for murder cannot have continued.�

Gwyneth Paltrow: “I hated acting… Acting and the whole circus around it.�

Lindsay Lohan: “I hate Hollywood and I don’t want to work there.�

Alec Baldwin: “I believe it is time for me to do something else. It’s absolutely, unequivocally time for me to do something else… I can’t do this anymore. It’s all about compromising. I hate work. I fucking hate it in every way.�

Jamie Lee Curtis: “I’m not an actor anymore.�

Pamela Anderson: “I want to be in Vegas forever.�

Kevin Spacey: “I don’t care about my personal acting career any more. I’m done with it.�

Nicolas Cage: “I’m tired of it. It has made me reclusive. That is an increasingly gnawing feeling in my body.�

Hayden Christensen: “I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking about studying architecture instead.�

Audrey Tatou: “I know I’m not the best actress in the world and not the worst but I think that maybe I’d be happier doing something that doesn’t leave me so exposed.�

Hugh Grant:: “It’s so long and boring and so difficult to get right.�

Eddie Murphy: “Thirty years and I have close to 50 movies and it is like, ‘Why am I in the movies? I’ve done that part now. I’ll go back to the stage and do stand-up.’�

Sting: “It’s too much hard work.�

Mena Suvari: “I don’t have a strong desire to be an actress my whole life–it’s just not fulfilling enough for me… If I hadn’t got into modeling, I probably would have studied psychology and might be working on a PHD right now.�

Ricky Gervais: “I’m not going to make a career of it [acting], certainly not. I’ve never wanted to be an actor. I’ve never thought of myself as one.�

Madonna: “I hate to admit it, but I’ve decided to give [acting] up.�

Uma Thurman: “I am thinking about becoming a stay-at-home mom.�

Tom Selleck: “A dog was killed — trampled to death — and it really disturbed me… I remember saying to my agent, ‘If this is what it’s like, I’ve got to find another line of work.�

Elizabeth Hurley: “I decided I couldn’t really do movies any more.�

Matthew Broderick: “I should probably quit. Acting is a tough living.�

Rachel Bilson: “I love the career I have chosen, but I’d be quite happy as a housewife, at home with the kids.�

Quentin Tarantino: “I just don’t feel like acting anymore, I lost the bug.�

Gary Oldman: “You can get tired. You might say I want to change careers or to do something else…. My love for acting… It’s withered.�

Update: Nicole Kidman wins!