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
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.
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.
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.
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.
grew-up grew
I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
want nine problem
Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
taste-in-music heat masculine
I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
names attention come-up
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
quirky use needs
I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
husband dad thinking
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.
drinking yes-i-can proud
The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'