Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Perry - Page 2

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

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.

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

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

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.

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

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.

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

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

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

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.

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.

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.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

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.

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

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.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

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?

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.