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" 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
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" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "
Matthew Perry
You
Successful
Show
" 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.' "
Matthew Perry
Night
Growing
Brand
" As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband. "
Matthew Perry
Think
Family
Great
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Friends
Character
Life
" 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
" If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. "
Matthew Perry
Room
Fill
Possible
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Life
Time
Fun
" 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
" Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner. "
Matthew Perry
Dinner
Women
Think
" 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
" 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 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. "
Matthew Perry
School
Cool
Group
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Talk
Funny
Life
" 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
" The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.' "
Matthew Perry
Me
My Life
Help
" 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 got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
Matthew Perry
Got
Year
Because
" 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
" 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 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
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. "
Matthew Perry
Fine
Scary
I Am
" 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
Me
Think
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Experience
Life
Find
" 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
" 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