U-571 star Jon Bon Jovi isn't about to give up his rock and roll past, but he's willing to turn down the volume a bit as he focuses on his budding acting career.

"I don't think I'll tour as much as I used to," the Bon Jovi front man tells TV Guide Online. Indeed, the band's upcoming 50-show tour, which kicks off in July, is about one-fifth the schedule of tours past.

"I would love to be able to do both," says Bon Jovi, 38, whose growing movie r&eacute;sum&eacute; includes roles in Homegrown opposite Billy Bob Thornton, and Edward Burns's No Looking Back. "I look at someone like Sinatra who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies ? that would be a great life to have.

"With the band, I'm the quarterback," Bon Jovi explains. "With [acting], I just show up and do my part. And I can just be an artist, and it's new and exciting; it's a challenge."

As he prepares to promote his band's new CD and upcoming concert tour, Bon Jovi is limiting his acting work these days to a bit part opposite Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt in Pay It Forward. Come January, however, he plans to shift his focus back to movies on a full-time basis.

He says he's considering various dramatic scripts, none of which involve rock stars: "God forbid! Believe me, I've had my fair share of those kind of scripts and they make really good cup holders."