Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry
Matthew Langford Perry is an American-Canadian actor and writer. Perry is known for his role as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC television sitcom Friends, as well as his portrayal of Ron Clark in the 2006 television movie The Ron Clark Story. Along with starring in the short-lived television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Perry has appeared in a number of films, including Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, and 17 Again. In 2010, he expanded his...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 August 1969
CityWilliamstown, MA
school night guy
In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
thinking guy attention
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.
school kids joking-around
I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.
inspirational laughing trying
There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
fun character thinking
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.
thinking half dinner
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.
character guy rooms
I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.
fun recovery sobriety
I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.
girl fall laughing
I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
girl hurt fall
I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.
thinking talking causes
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.
character people broken
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
thinking addiction people
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.
inspirational sobriety ifs
The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.