Robert Redford: “I'm Getting Tired of Acting”

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VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS, MN) — Robert Redford seems to have won every honor one could possibly want as an actor, so perhaps that’s why he says he may be ready to retire from a life in front of the camera.

In an interview conducted by his grandson, Dylan Redford, for Walker Art Center’s website, the Oscar-winner says, “I’m getting tired of acting. I’m an impatient person, so it’s hard for me to sit around and do take after take after take.”

Redford notes that he’d like to return to what he enjoyed doing before he became an actor: painting and drawing. “At this point in my life, age 80, it’d give me more satisfaction because I’m not dependent on anybody,” he explains. “It’s just me, just the way it used to be, and so going back to sketching — that’s sort of where my head is right now.”

Redford says he’s got two acting project in the works: a movie called Our Souls at Night, opposite Jane Fonda, and another film called Old Man With a Gun, with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek.

“Once they’re done, then I’m going to say, ‘Okay, that’s goodbye to all that,’ and then just focus on directing,” Redford proclaims.

As a director, Redford has given us such movies as Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show, The Milagro Beanfield War and The Legend of Bagger Vance.

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