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" To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago. "
Matthew Perry
Funny
Said
Writing
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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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Think
Together
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Emotional
Woman
Write
" I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up. "
Matthew Perry
Myself
Time
Thinking
" I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people. "
Matthew Perry
Try
Broken
Who
" My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it. "
Matthew Perry
Luxury
Life
Enough
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Situation
Serious
People
" In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night! "
Matthew Perry
High School
Night
Prom
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Game
Fun
Damn
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Attention
Girl
Stress
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Man
Now
Working
" 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
" I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. "
Matthew Perry
Love
Law
You
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Believe
Timing
Rights
" Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.' "
Matthew Perry
Know
Nice
View
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Absolutely
Job
Love
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Life
You
Doing
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Famous
Best
You
" 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
Like
Me
Over
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Perry
Humor
Woman
She
" 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 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
" 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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Night
Growing
Brand
" After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked. "
Matthew Perry
Hooked
Got
First