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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
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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.
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I was about as scared as I can get without vomiting or having a heart attack or something, ... Access Hollywood.
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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.
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The thing is that nobody can make anybody do anything, ... And you can have talk after talk after talk, but the person who is in trouble really needs to want to not be in trouble for it to work out.
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I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
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When I read the script of Chandler, I thought WOW I can really shake hands with this guy. Chandlers a sarcastic guy, dry, funny - a guy who's not comfortable unless he's joking and hiding the emotional stuff that's going on with him. And Yeah, I can relate to that a bit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.