Matthew Perry Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

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.

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

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

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

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

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

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

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

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

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.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

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 think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

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

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.