Quotes by Matthew Perry

About Matthew Perry:

Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor and writer. He is mostly known for his role as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC television sitcom Friends, as well as his portrayal of Ron Clark in the 2006 television movie The Ron Clark Story. Along with starring in the short-lived television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Perry has appeared in a number of films, including Fools Rush In (1997), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), and 17 Again (2009). In 2010, he expanded his résumé to include both video games and voiceover work when he voiced Benny in the role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas.
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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.

Matthew Perry

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....

Matthew Perry

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

Matthew Perry

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Matthew Perry

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

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Matthew Perry

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 ...

Matthew Perry

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.

Matthew Perry

I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.

Matthew Perry

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' ...

Matthew Perry

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

Matthew Perry

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!

Matthew Perry

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

Matthew Perry

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Matthew Perry

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.

Matthew Perry

I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Matthew Perry

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

Matthew Perry

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

Matthew Perry

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.

Matthew Perry

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.

Matthew Perry

Author Bio

  • NameMatthew Perry
  • DescriptionCanadian/American actor
  • BornAugust 19, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Canada
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor; Film Director; Writer; Film Producer