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" 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
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" If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. "
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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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" My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. "
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" If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. "
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" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as '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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" 'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again. "
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" 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 have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck. "
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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. "
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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'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 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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Time
Always
" Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.' "
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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
" 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've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not. "
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Found
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" Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. "
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" I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. "
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Law
You
" 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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" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
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First
" 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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" When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.' "
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" 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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" 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 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
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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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" 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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" To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. "
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