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" I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. "
Matthew Perry
Been
Up
Twice
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" 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.' "
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" I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that. "
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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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" 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. "
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" In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night! "
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" Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.' "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Think
" 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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Life
You
Doing
" 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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Team
Love
Kings
" 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
" I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not. "
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Pages
Found
Gay
" I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered. "
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Lot
Life
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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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Always
" I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. "
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Attention
Girl
Stress
" 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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Brand
" My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. "
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Trust
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Help
" I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around. "
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Kid
Always
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" The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything. "
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Sobriety
Anything
" 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. "
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Fun
Damn
" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
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Hooked
Got
First
" 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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Down
Way
" 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. "
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Try
New
Want
" I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people. "
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Broken
Who
" I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. "
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Best
You
" 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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" 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
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" 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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Scary
I Am