Angelina Jolie confirmed that she plans to give up acting one day.
In an interview with DuJour magazine, as cited in CNN, while promoting her new film Unbroken, Jolie said that she's ready to give up performing for directing.
And when ask if she's ready to give up acting, the actress said "Absolutely".
"I've never been comfortable as an actor; I've never loved being in front of the camera," Jolie said. "I didn't ever think I could direct, but I hope I'm able to have a career at it because I'm much happier."
"I see myself moving into directing more and doing much less as an actor," Jolie later explained to Entertainment Weekly. "I have a few more in me, ones I have been developing for some time, so I will do those before I step away."
Angelina Jolie also revealed on BBC Radio Five Live that in June, a planned appearance as Cleopatra in a long-gestating biopic could be her final acting role.
"It's one of those that you think maybe that's the one you put everything into and that's where you end it, that's where you finish - in a great way," she said. "What could you do beyond that one?"
"I love directing, I'm much happier directing," she added.
"I like following a project all the way through. I like spending two years on something and learning about it... I like being pushed mentally to have to learn so much and be a part of every single aspect of a production."
Aside from focusing on directing, the famous 38-year-old actress also said that her children were part of her decision of quitting acting, "I am so grateful to the job, and I have had great experiences, and I have even be able to tell stories and be a part of stories that mattered and I have done things for fun, but ... if it went away tomorrow I would be very happy to be home with the children," she told Britain's Channel 4 News in 2012. "I wake up in the morning as a mom and I turn on the news like everybody else, and I see what's happening and I want to be part of the world in a positive way."
At the moment, Angelina Jolie have directed two films-Unbroken; a film based on the true story of a US Olympic athlete turned Japanese prisoner of war, Louis Zamperini, who competed in the 5,000m at the 1936 Games in Berlin before becoming a bombardier in World War II which stars Britain's Jack O'Connell as Zamperini, and By The Sea; that tells about a couple with relationship problems who take a holiday in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, which she wrote and directed, and also stars in with husband Brad Pitt.
