Matthew Perry

“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.”

“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.”

“I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.”

“Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.”

“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 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.”

“Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.”

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

“I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.”

“The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.”

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

“I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.”