Due to all of the negativity online and in the world of entertainment, which she views as largely malicious and cruel, "Weeds" star Mary-Louise Parker is just about fed up and ready to quit acting. For good.
"I'm almost done acting," the 48-year old star told News Corp Australia. "I'm not really that into it anymore. I don't know how many more movies I wanna do. I wouldn't mind doing a TV show again, I'd like to do a couple more plays, but I'm almost done acting, I think."
As for the reasons why, Parker chalked it up to the cruelty of the public's response to the entertainment industry and the many ways it is wearing her down.
"The world has gotten too mean for me, it's just too bitchy," she explained. "All the websites and all the blogging and all the people giving their opinion and their hatred...it's all so mean-spirited, it's all so critical. It's sport for people, it's fun to get on at night and unleash their own self-loathing by attacking someone else who they think has a happier life - or something, I dunno."
Parker has a son with ex-partner Billy Crudup and an adopted daughter from Ethiopia, and in her mind, the negative of the industry of the media outweighs the positive, including where children are concerned.
"It's a mean culture," she said. "It's reality TV and it's watching people suffer and watching people humiliate themselves. It's little girls in pageants and housewives and plastic surgery and people in rehab. It just feels like a very ugly...it's like someone just lifted up a rock and that's all we're looking at."
If and when she does lose the acting bug, the Emmy-winning actress told News Corp Australia that she has plenty of things in mind that would make her much happier than starring in films and television shows.
"I would write, still," she said. "I write for Esquire and writing makes me happy. I would take care of my kids and my goats. That's about it. Bake. Throw my internet in the lake..."
As for when she will pull the curtain of her acting career, Parker is still unsure.
"It's only started happening to me recently that I've felt weary of it all, so I dunno," Parker said. "There's another play I wanna do after ("The Snow Geese") and I wouldn't mind doing a couple more years of a TV show, but after that not much more."
