John Corbett Regrets 'Unfulfilling' Acting Career, Wishes He'd Had More Creative Input

John Corbett made legions of fans swoon with his performances in the “Sex and the City” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” franchises, but he now believes a professional detour might have been to his benefit.

Appearing on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast last week, the actor deemed the bulk of his work in Hollywood “unfulfilling,” and suggested he’d have opted for a different career path entirely if he’d known how things would turn out.

“Look, I’m at the fourth quarter of the football game now, in life and in show biz ― it’s just a fact,” Corbett, 63, told hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade. “So I can reveal now I picked the fucking wrong thing to do with my life.”

Though the actor acknowledged he’s “made a lot of money” and now lives “in a beautiful home,” he wishes he’d had more creative input on the film and TV projects he was a part of.

“As far as a fulfilling creative work life, I didn’t write one fucking line,” he said. “I didn’t write one joke to make people laugh. So it’s been unfulfilling on that level.”

He went on to note: “Anybody listening that’s never been on a movie set, ifyou came to visit any one of us for two days ― just two of those 14-hour days ― you’d say: ’I never wanna be here ever, ever again. This is like watching paint dry.’”

Corbett, a West Virginia native, landed his first on-camera role in 1988, when he appeared on “The Wonder Years” as Louis, the hippie boyfriend of Karen Arnold (Olivia d’Abo). His professional breakout came two years later, when he starred as Chris Stevens, an ex-convict turned free-spirited radio DJ, on the smash CBS series “Northern Exposure.”

At one point in his “Fly on the Wall” chat, Corbett pointed to two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone as an example of an actor whose career has