Matthew C Perry Quotes & Sayings

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

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. — Matthew Perry

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

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. — Matthew Perry

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. — Matthew Perry

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not. — Matthew Perry

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

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now. — Matthew Perry

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

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. — Matthew Perry

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. — Matthew Perry

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. — Matthew Perry

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them. — Matthew Perry

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new. — Matthew Perry

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

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. — Matthew Perry

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength. — Matthew Perry

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

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered. — Matthew Perry

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. — Matthew Perry

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. — 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

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

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well. — Matthew Perry

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. — Matthew Perry

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. — Matthew Perry

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

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

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