Matthew Perry (actor) quotes - page 2

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. (Matthew Perry (actor))
My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. View quote
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I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. View quote
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I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me. View quote
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After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. View quote
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I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. View quote
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When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' (Matthew Perry (actor))
When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts. View quote
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To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. View quote
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night! (Matthew Perry (actor))
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. View quote
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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. View quote
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