Matt LeBlanc Quotes

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

Everyone is just as committed and focused as they were the first season.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

I started going gray in my early twenties.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.