What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
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Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.
There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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