169 Quotes by Matthew Perry

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

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

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

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

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. 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.

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.