A biography for Matthew Perryhasn’t been written yet.
“To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.”
“I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.”
“The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.”
“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.”
“The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.”
“I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.”
“I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.”
“It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.”
“I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.”
“I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.”
“I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.”
“My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.”