Actor Ryan Phillippe is considering quitting Hollywood to become a school teacher. The Flags Of Our Fathers star has an ambition to help kids, and confesses it could tempt him away from acting.He says, "If I ever gave up acting I'd probably teach - that's something I've always thought about, and I might do yet." Phillippe's break through came in 1997 when he was cast in I Know Wht You Did Last Summer alongside Freddie Prince Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar.He went on to appear in a second teen film Cruel Intentions, a remake of Dangerous Liasons, were he was reunited with Gellar and worked with future wife Reese Witherspoon.More recently he has turned his attention to more serois role including Gosford Park where he was just one of a high profile ensamble cast including Helen Mirren and Clive Owen.A second ensamble cast beckoned for the actor in the Oscar winning Crash before going on to play the real life medical corpsman John Bradley in Clint Eastwood's depiction of the battle of Iwo Jima in Flags of our Fathers.

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