'Rampage' Jackson will retire from MMA as soon as he gets paid more to make movies

Hi, Hollywood.

UFC light heavyweight contender Quinton Jackson is ready and waiting for the first opportunity to bail on mixed martial arts, namely, a big enough payday in films.

As he tells MMA Fight Corner (via Five Knuckles):

"Honestly, I've been known for keeping it real and I have to keep it real. As soon as movies start paying me more than I make to fight, I'm gone. It don't hurt to make movies. It don't hurt that bad. Everyday I train. Everyday I'm like, 'Man, I can't wait until I get another big movie.'... I don't have the type of blood Randy Couture has. I give it up to him. I take my hate off to that guy, but I'm not that guy. I don't plan on fighting until I'm 40. And I'm not Chuck Liddell. I'm not coming to work inside the UFC office when I retire. That's not me. I'm an entertainer, I like making people laugh. I like doing movies, action moves and stuff like that. I might even try to be a comedian one day, who knows?"

Jackson, 32, is a veteran of 39 professional fights and is seemingly long past his threshold for the daily grind of training just so he can get punched in the face for a living.

Instead, he's ready to head out to the land of make believe where it's all peaches and sunshine.

But will that change if he earns himself a title shot sometime in the near future? After all, a win over Matt Hamill at UFC 130 on May 28 would put him just a fight or two away.

Title shot or "Tinseltown?"