Matthew Perry
My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.
After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.
I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.
I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.
Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'
When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.
There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.Collection: Inspirational
I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.Collection: Trouble
When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'Collection: People
I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.Collection: Song
I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.Collection: Song
I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.Collection: Girl
The funniest thing is when somebody says "Look I've no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself" you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way.Collection: Funny
I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.Collection: Dark
I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.Collection: Play
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.Collection: Sports
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I dont talk about it too much in the press is because it isnt funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesnt seem right.Collection: Pills
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.Collection: Thinking
When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.Collection: People
I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.Collection: Nervous
I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.Collection: Believe
So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?Collection: Inspirational
I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.Collection: Fun
I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.Collection: Party
In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.Collection: Ego