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" I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around. "
Matthew Perry
Kid
Always
Trouble
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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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You
Doing
" 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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" 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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Life
Time
Fun
" 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. "
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Cool
Good
Life
" 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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Woman
Write
" 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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Sunshine
Dinner
Moving
" 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
" If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it. "
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Experience
Life
Find
" 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 have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "
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Intimacy
Trouble
History
" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "
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You
Successful
Show
" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
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Got
Year
Because
" 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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Rest
Play
My Life
" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
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Hooked
Got
First
" I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part. "
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Playing
Up
Loved
" I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. "
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Some
Remember
Need
" Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. "
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Talk
Funny
Life
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Success
You
Happy
" I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh. "
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Early
Down
Way
" I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing. "
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Fine
Scary
I Am
" 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. "
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Situation
Serious
People
" 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
" I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction. "
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Addiction
Educate
Need
" 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. "
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Friends
Up
School
" 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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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
" 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. "
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Friends
Character
Life
" 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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Absolutely
Job
Love
" It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles. "
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Talking
Problems
Me