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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To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.
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Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn't good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I've just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there.
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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.
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I was the coolest guy of the non-cool crowd.
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She did an amazing job casting the show, obviously, and she's done an even more amazing job spearheading this charity.
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I'm amazed at how a lot of people have come up to me and said, 'That's about time that happened,' ... And I'm trying to figure out -- because we never really set anything up. It just kind of happened.
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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.