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" I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts. "
Matthew Perry
You
Know
Life
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" 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. "
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" I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. "
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" There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. "
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" My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. "
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Help
" 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
" To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. "
Matthew Perry
Funny
Said
Writing
" 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. "
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White
Show
Down
" 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. "
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School
Cool
Group
" My favorite actor was, is, Michael Keaton. Certainly growing up, in the movie 'Night Shift' he did something brand new that I hadn't seen before that we all steal from now. And then it was in 1987 he did the movie 'Clean and Sober' and 'Beetlejuice' in the same year, and that was when I said, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' "
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Night
Growing
Brand
" 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 would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life. "
Matthew Perry
Cool
Good
Life
" I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "
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Intimacy
Trouble
History
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Believe
Timing
Rights
" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "
Matthew Perry
You
Successful
Show
" 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
" I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around. "
Matthew Perry
Kid
Always
Trouble
" 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. "
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Beautiful
World
Wife
" 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. "
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Luxury
Life
Enough
" Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. "
Matthew Perry
Want
Problem
Never
" I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people. "
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Try
Broken
Who
" I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show. "
Matthew Perry
Me
Think
Know
" I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not. "
Matthew Perry
Pages
Found
Gay
" 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
" The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh. "
Matthew Perry
Camera
Me
Better
" I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck. "
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Like
Call
Just
" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
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Hooked
Got
First
" 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.' "
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Past
Think
Together
" 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