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105 Witty Quotes By Matthew Perry That Reveal His Innate Humor

Famous As: Best Known for His Role of 'Chandler Bing' on the TV Sitcom 'Friends'

Born On: August 19, 1969

Died On: October 28, 2023

Born In: Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States

Died At Age: 54

Matthew Perry did not say it in so many words; but he was born a comedian, using humor to diffuse deeply emotional situations from his early years. However, in an interview, he has said that to be a comedian, one has to have some darkness behind it and that he draws on his past. Born in Massachusetts, raised in Ottawa, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of fifteen to pursue a career in acting. In this long journey, he has gathered a huge cache of experience. Let us now look into some of his quotes and find about the man he is, his sense of style, what he thinks about addiction and a lot of other things.

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There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
Trying
Matthew Perry

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.
Matthew Perry

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.
Matthew Perry

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.
Matthew Perry

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
Matthew Perry

When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

When I die, I'd like 'Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'
Matthew Perry

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
Matthew Perry

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.

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.
Matthew Perry

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.
Matthew Perry

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.
Ego
Matthew Perry

I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.
Matthew Perry

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?
Matthew Perry

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
Trying
Matthew Perry

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
Matthew Perry

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.
Matthew Perry

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.

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.
Character
Matthew Perry

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.
Matthew Perry

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.

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.
Character
Matthew Perry

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.

It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.
Matthew Perry

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
Matthew Perry

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
Matthew Perry

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.
Matthew Perry

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
Matthew Perry

I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.

I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.
Matthew Perry

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.
Matthew Perry

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
Character
Matthew Perry

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was, like, six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
Life
Matthew Perry

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
Trying
Matthew Perry

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
Beautiful
Matthew Perry