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" 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

Los Angeles

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" I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. "

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Playing

Loved

" 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. "

" My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. "

" 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. "

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Think

Know

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

" 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. "

" 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

" When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' "

Matthew Perry

People

Friends

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

" 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. "

Matthew Perry

Out

Think

" In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night! "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

You

Career

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

" I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby! "

Matthew Perry

Together

Women

" As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles. "

Matthew Perry

Talking

Problems

" 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

Better

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "