Matthew Perry Quotes
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I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.
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It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.
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I'm not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.
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I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.
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I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
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'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.
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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.
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Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes.
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
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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.
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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.
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If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
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I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
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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.
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As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
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I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
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To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
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My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
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I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.
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It's been more than a show. It's been a wonderful support group. It's a group of people that love each other, that come together every day to try to make America laugh. What better thing is there to do than that?
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
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I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.