Actor Woody Harrelson claimed he gave up his cellphone when he noticed time limits were not helping him curb his use.

Harrelson, 62, co-hosts SiriusXM’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast with fellow actor Ted Danson. During Wednesday’s episode, Danson outed Harrelson as someone who doesn’t carry a cellphone but has someone else handle it for him.

“Well, I just don’t like to have, you know, to be readily available to any human being at any time,” Harrelson explained but went on, “That’s not the reason. I like to be in touch with people in a way, but I don’t like the appendage on my appendage.”

Danson and their podcast guest, actress Kristen Bell, lauded Harrelson for distancing himself from his device. Harrelson said he could get easily wrapped up in texting people. It could even distract him from a dinner with a friend whenever there was a lull in the conversation.

“You know, I made a thing where I’m like, ‘OK, I’m gonna set a two-hour limit on my phone’ because this is — I’ve given it up now … 3 1/2 years, but back then I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to set this limit. Two hours,'” Harrelson said. “It’s like 9:30. You know, I’ve already hit my limit at 9:30, so I woke up, and I’ve been on it two hours already because … you know how it can just keep going and going.”

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The concern of excessive cellphone usage spans from adults to young children, with schools opting to ban devices from classrooms. A study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sampled over 48,000 children, found 50% were consuming more than an hour of screen time every day in 2021, the most recent year data is available. That number, however, was a decrease from 2019, when over 55% of children spent more than an hour staring at screens.

Cellphones are a semi-recent invention at just over 40 years old. These devices first became connected to the internet in 2001.