The Celebrity Truth

Actor Alec Baldwin may follow the path of fellow Hollywood star Arnold Swartzennegar and pursue a career in politics, he revealed to ’60 Minutes’ in a segment to be aired this Sunday.

Baldwin said he is thinking about pursuing his longtime dream of becoming an elected official.

"There’s other things I want to do (besides acting),” he said.

“I mean, in a matter of weeks, I’m going to be 50. There’s no age limit on running for office, to a degree. (It is) something I might do one day."

The interview took place before he turned 50 on April 3.

Baldwin told ‘60 Minutes’ that he believed he would be ready to face the public and the press, partly because he has already endured the scrutiny that surrounded his divorce and custody battle with actress Kim Basinger.

In April 2007, a voicemail Baldwin left for his daughter, Ireland – in which he called her a "thoughtless little pig" – was widely reported in newspapers, magazines and on television.

"If you go through the things I have gone through with the media, like this thing with my daughter, there’s only one thing that comes to mind initially – that is, how my daughter must have felt to have this played out in public," Baldwin said.

Still, he appears to be as outspoken today as he was before his divorce; when asked about his previous comment that his ex-wife’s lawyer was a "300-pound homunculus with a face like a clenched fist", he responded, "I was being kind.”

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