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Matthew McConaughey tells PEOPLE that if he chooses to run for public office, it will be after he sees his three children "out of the house as healthy individuals"

McConaughey, who shares Levi, 17, Vida, 15, and Livingston, 12, with wife Camila Alves McConaughey, publicly flirted with a run for political office in his home state back in 2021

"If I did that now, I wouldn't be able to be the father and spend the time with the family the way that I have so far, and it's something I'm not ready to sacrifice," he says

Matthew McConaughey hasn't ruled out running for public office, but the Academy Award -winner has familial duties he needs to attend to first.

"I don't know," McConaughey, 55, says during his PEOPLE cover shoot, when asked if he is still interested in a politi

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