Matthew Perry Quotes
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I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.
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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.
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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.
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It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'
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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.
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Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
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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.
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It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?
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After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
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To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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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.
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I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
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My favorite actor was, is, Michael Keaton. Certainly growing up, in the movie 'Night Shift' he did something brand new that I hadn't seen before that we all steal from now. And then it was in 1987 he did the movie 'Clean and Sober' and 'Beetlejuice' in the same year, and that was when I said, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.'