Top 45 Matthew Perry Quotes

I love the idea of ‘the one’ but I actually believe that there isn’t a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it’s all timing.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on ‘Friends.’

If there’s a silence in a room I’ll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

As for my personal life, I’d love to start a family of my own. I think I’d make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy – on prom night!

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.

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.

When I die, I’d like’ Friends’ to be listed behind ‘helping people.’

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

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.

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 have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

The thing is, if I don’t have sobriety, I don’t have anything.

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!

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.

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

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.

I’ve just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I’m gay or not.

There was a time when I wasn’t working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing ‘Fallout 3,’ a very fun game.

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.

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

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

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.

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 think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it’s all lovable losers that gathered together – ‘Taxi’ and ‘Cheers,’ ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Friends.’

I don’t have a very ‘masculine’ taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

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.

‘Friends’ was a magical thing, and no one’s going to ever have anything like that again.

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it’s kind of the law that you love hockey.

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that’s not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.