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
kicked life
I look at it as something I'll look back on my whole life and how we all kicked butt.
british-actor bummed falling turned
Everything is just falling into place for me right now. I just turned 30, which I thought I was going to be bummed about, but I'm not.
early fall girls learned life realized six
I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
april bat care guess obviously problem proud realized severity stepped took
I guess it was around April (1997) that I realized the level, the severity of the problem that I was having, ... And I'm really proud that I kind of stepped up to the bat and took care of it. For me, it was a no-brainer. It was just -- this is obviously what I have to go do.
certainly characters people relate
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.
surround talented
You want to surround yourself with really talented people, and I think I have.
ask british-actor julia nervous roberts
I was like: I'm going to ask Julia Roberts out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.
absolutely decided girls happened listen realized time tried turned
I realized by the time I turned 30, which happened this year, that I would be going out with girls and they would think I was really funny, but I would know absolutely nothing about them. I decided that's just not the way to go. I have tried to listen more and get to know the person I'm with.
absolutely although funnier hates job love similar whereas
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.
crappy drop feminine gay girl guy impress male neat obviously playing stuff thinks trying
I'm obviously comfortable with my feminine side! I didn't have any reservations playing a gay guy as it was kind of a neat idea to me. I'm able to drop all the crappy male stuff of trying to impress the girl and get her into bed, because she thinks I'm gay.
career insane laugh paid people realized
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.
trouble
I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
grew-up grew
I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
goal laughing guy
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.