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" I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh. "
Matthew Perry
Early
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" 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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" My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again. "
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" 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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" To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. "
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" I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
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" I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "
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" When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. "
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Twice
" 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. "
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" 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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" I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around. "
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" 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. "
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" I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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