On Wednesday, Jim Carrey spoke about his break from the entertainment business and said that his goal had never been to work in it but rather to “destroy” it.

The 56-year-old Liar, Liar actor stated, “I just didn’t want to be in the business anymore,” in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was published on Wednesday, August 15. “I didn’t like what was happening, the corporations taking over and all that. And maybe it’s because I felt pulled toward a different type of creative outlet and I really liked the control of painting — of not having a committee in the way telling me what the idea must be to appeal to a four-quadrant whatever.”

Carrey would subsequently make a comeback to the business after a protracted absence. He would play a pivotal role in the popular Showtime comedy Kidding, a part created especially for him. Carrey returned to Hollywood, but he wasn’t attempting to emulate the Jim Carrey that the industry had come to know.

He said, “I’m not back in the same way. I don’t feel I’m little Jim trying to hang on to a place in the stratosphere anymore — I don’t feel like I’m trying to hold on to anything.”

Over the years, Carrey participated in several films and television programs, but the actor said that his performance in the 1994 comedy smash “Ace Ventura” was what truly stood out.

“My plan was not to join Hollywood, it was to destroy it,” Carrey said. “Like, take a gigantic sledgehammer to the leading man and to all the seriousness.”

However, the movie helped him become famous, something the 56-year-old believes he didn’t like.

“There’s a weightlessness to it,” the actor said. “You can dream about it all you want, but until you get it, you don’t realize that it’s really not a place that’s very comfortable for very long.”

Carrey’s involvement in the Sonic series has led to a minor career comeback. The superstar does not, however, have long term ambitions for this comeback. This is because he said that he was very certain that his acting days were behind him in an interview with Access.

“Well, I’m retiring,” Carrey said. “It depends if the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s gonna be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road. But I’m taking a break, yeah. I really like my quiet life, I really like putting paint in the canvass. I really love my spiritual life, but I feel like, and this is something you might never hear a celebrity say as long as time exists, I have enough.”

The freedom to do things his way has lately paid off. He is not just I’m Dying Up Here’s executive producer on Showtime, but his next sitcom Kidding will also debut there in September. He felt the part of Mr. Pickles in Kidding, a charming television personality on a kids’ program who is battling his own issues, to be appropriate. “I think the idea of identity, the search for identity, what it is, who we are, what’s an authentic person is a theme that’s always been attractive to me,” Carrey said at a Television Critics Association panel on Monday, August 6. “And I think that there’s definitely something in this piece that calls me as far as the idea of being hit by a freight train in life and trying to hang on to the idea of yourself that you had before it happened that’s really attractive.”

Carrey has produced enduring comedy throughout his career, such as The Cable Guy and Dumb and Dumber, but he has also had to cope with the negative aspects of stardom. His lover Cathriona White committed suicide in 2015 at her Sherman Oaks, California, home. The actor was then sued for wrongful death by White’s family when a letter was found at the site implicating him. Carrey’s attorney submitted a move to dismiss the allegations in December 2016 and characterized the case as a “shameful shakedown for money.” The lawsuit was dismissed earlier this year. During a New York Fashion Week event in September 2017, he also gave a strange interview in which he said, “I wanted to find the most meaningless thing that I could come to and join and here I am.”

Carrey has mostly avoided the limelight in Hollywood. His most recent projects included an appearance on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and a Netflix special on Andy Kaufman. Additionally, he has produced politically charged artwork critical of President Trump.