Matthew McConaughey says he is considering a career in politics
'Look, politics seems to be a broken business to me right now. And when politics redefines its purpose, I could be a hell of a lot more interested’
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Your support makes all the difference.In a new interview, Matthew McConaughey has said that he would consider transitioning out of acting and entering politics.
"I don’t know. I mean, that wouldn’t be up to me. It would be up to the people more than it would me," he elaborated on The Hugh Hewitt Show when asked about whether he’d consider running for governor of the Lone Star State.
“I would say this,” he continued. “Look, politics seems to be a broken business to me right now. And when politics redefines its purpose, I could be a hell of a lot more interested."
Citing “personal values” and “social contracts," the Interstellar star went on to comment on how the country inherently “doesn’t trust each other.”
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"That leads to us not trust in ourselves, which if that becomes epidemic, then we’ve got anarchy," he went on. "I’m all for the individual, and I think it’s for — to make collective change that the individual needs to look in the mirror and say, 'How can I be a little bit better today?'"
The actor, who is busy promoting his new memoir Greenlights, made similar comments in an interview with Esquire: “We have great distrust in the government, we don't believe them, what leaders should lead them.
"We're looking at politics and we're going, What's your purpose? What is politics? It sounds like a broken business. We're supposed to follow you, you’re leaders? It sounds like a pep rally.”
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