Matthew C Perry Quotes

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

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#2. My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

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#3. I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

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#7. It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

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

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

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

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

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#15. I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

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#20. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

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

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

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#24. I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

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

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#26. 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!

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

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#29. 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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#30. I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work ... It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

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