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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. "
Matthew Perry
Friends
Get
Music
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" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Famous
Best
You
" 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
Up
School
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Situation
Serious
People
" In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night! "
Matthew Perry
High School
Night
Prom
" When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' "
Matthew Perry
People
Like
Friends
" I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "
Matthew Perry
Intimacy
Trouble
History
" 'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again. "
Matthew Perry
Again
Going
Like
" To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps. "
Matthew Perry
You
Some
Behind
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
People
Experience
Think
" I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck. "
Matthew Perry
Like
Call
Just
" If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. "
Matthew Perry
Go
Audition
Again
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
School
Yourself
Thought
" It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles. "
Matthew Perry
Talking
Problems
Me
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Me
You
Career
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Beautiful
World
Wife
" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
Matthew Perry
Got
Year
Because
" I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up. "
Matthew Perry
Myself
Time
Thinking
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Man
Now
Working
" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
Matthew Perry
Hooked
Got
First
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Work
Time
Always
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Try
New
Want
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Team
Love
Kings
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Sunshine
Dinner
Moving
" The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything. "
Matthew Perry
Thing
Sobriety
Anything
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Woman
Man
Laugh
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Rest
Play
My Life
" 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
" I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles. "
Matthew Perry
Canada
Me
Los Angeles
" I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around. "
Matthew Perry
Kid
Always
Trouble
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Early
Age
Success