Matthew Perry Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“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 learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.”

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

“It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”