Matthew Perry Quotes

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Matthew Perry

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Compliment

• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Business
  • Interesting

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Women
  • Always
  • Child

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Eye
  • Audience
  • Secret

• The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didn't want to lose another top performer.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Good
  • God
  • Guy

• I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Emotional