Don’t get too distraught about Daniel Day-Lewis’s sudden retirement.

The British actor’s publicist announced, somewhat cryptically, that Day-Lewis will “no longer be working as an actor.’’ It’s a “private decision,’’ his rep said, and there will be no further comment on the matter.

Huh. Day-Lewis is without a doubt one of the finest actors alive — he’s the only male actor to win three Academy Awards for best actor — but, let’s be honest, the guy rarely works. Since 2002’s “Gangs of New York,’’ for which he earned an Oscar nomination, Day-Lewis has made just five films. Compare that to, say, homeboy Matt Damon, who’s been in more than 30 films during the same period. (Granted, a few of them — “The Brothers Grimm’’ and “We Bought a Zoo’’ come to mind — should not have been made.)

But setting that aside, what are the chances that Day-Lewis, who’s only 60, won’t be coaxed out of retirement for a giant payday or some plum role. For example, who’ll play President Trump’s adviser Steve Bannon when Oliver Stone makes the movie about this bizarre time in our history?

And that’s the thing. There are so many actors and musicians who’ve announced their retirements only to un-retire years later. The list is long. Remember when Alec Baldwin said he’d be calling it quits when his “30 Rock’’ contract was up? Baldwin has made more than a half-dozen movies since then. Or how about Jay-Z, who announced his retirement after releasing “The Black Album’’ in 2003 and then returned three years later with another album.

Singer Barbra Streisand was just 57 when she announced her retirement in 1999. Fans rushed to see Babs sing “Send in the Clowns’’ one final time — the farewell tour was hugely profitable — but then, guess what, she changed her mind and has been back on the stage several times since, including a career-spanning show at TD Garden just last year.

Then there’s the galling example of the indie band LCD Soundsystem, which announced on its website in 2011 that it would be playing its last show ever at New York’s Madison Square Garden. What nonsense. The band went on hiatus for a while, but the people who paid a ransom to see that “last concert ever’’ — and there were a lot of them — got robbed: LCD Soundsystem’s new CD, “American Dream,’’ comes out in September and then they’ll play all over the place.

So don’t shed too many tears about Day-Lewis’s exit from the scene. Something tells us that the actor who won Oscars for his performances in “My Left Foot,’’ “There Will Be Blood,’’ and “Lincoln’’ will be back sooner or later.