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" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
Matthew Perry
Hooked
Got
First
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" When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' "
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Like
Friends
" When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me. "
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Me
You
Career
" 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. "
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Character
Life
" 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.' "
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Me
My Life
Help
" 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. "
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Work
Time
Always
" If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. "
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Go
Audition
Again
" 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. "
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Absolutely
Job
Love
" If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. "
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Room
Fill
Possible
" 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
Success
You
Happy
" 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. "
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Friends
Up
School
" 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. "
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Attention
Girl
Stress
" 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. "
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Game
Fun
Damn
" Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. "
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Guy
Too Much
Well
" 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. "
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Think
Family
Great
" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "
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You
Successful
Show
" Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. "
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Addiction
Walk
Overcome
" I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months. "
Matthew Perry
Like
Me
Over
" I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck. "
Matthew Perry
Like
Call
Just
" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
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Got
Year
Because
" I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids. "
Matthew Perry
School
Cool
Group
" 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. "
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Rest
Play
My Life
" There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game. "
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Life
Time
Fun
" 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. "
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People
Experience
Think
" As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible. "
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Worst Thing
Actor
Worst
" 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. "
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Try
New
Want
" Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. "
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Want
Problem
Never
" 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
Style
Clothes
Girl
" It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles. "
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Talking
Problems
Me
" 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. "
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Sunshine
Dinner
Moving
" 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. "
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Fine
Scary
I Am