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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.' "

Matthew Perry

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

Matthew Perry

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Friends

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

Matthew Perry

Playing

Loved

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered. "

" 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

" If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. "

" 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. "

" Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.' "

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

" To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps. "

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

" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Matthew Perry

Think

Know

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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