169 Quotes by Matthew Perry

I don’t need to be reminded that I was on ‘Friends.’ I remember – some of it, anyway.

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.’

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it’s just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

I’ve been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

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.

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.

Nine times out of 10, women don’t want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I’ll never get that.

The funniest thing is when somebody says “Look I’ve no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself” you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way.