169 Quotes by 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.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it’s kind of the law that you love hockey.

I have what I like to call a ‘chinneck.’ My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

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

My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I’ve learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

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

I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley’s baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I’m thinking of suing the baby!

If I could walk into the ‘Friends’ audition again and go or not go, I have to say it’s 50-50.

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.