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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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" 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

" I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Matthew Perry

Playing

Loved

" I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. "

" 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. "

" I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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

" 'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again. "

Matthew Perry

Again

Going

" I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing. "

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

Matthew Perry

People

Friends

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

" 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. "

" I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that. "

" 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. "

" 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

Over

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

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

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

" I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby! "

Matthew Perry

Together

Women

" I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself. "

" 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. "

Matthew Perry

Friends

School

" I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh. "

" It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.' "

" To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. "