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" I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to. "

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Matthew Perry

Night

Growing

Brand

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. "

" I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Friends

School

" 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.' "

Matthew Perry

People

Friends

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

Matthew Perry

Been

Twice

" 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. "

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

" I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "

" Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. "

" If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. "

Matthew Perry

Audition

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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "

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