A biography for Matthew Perryhasn’t been written yet.
“In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!”
“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.”
“'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.”
“Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.”
“As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.”
“After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.”
“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.”
“If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.”
“I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.”
“Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.”
“It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'”
“I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.”
“I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on 'Friends' or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.”