Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry was born on August 19, 1969, in Williamstown, and held dual citizenship in both Canada and the United States. He attended Ashbury College and Lisgar Collegiate Institute before later studying at The Buckley School, moving between educational institutions as he developed the comedic sensibility that would come to define his professional work.
Perry built a career that extended across several disciplines in the entertainment industry, working as an actor, comedian, screenwriter, writer, producer, director, and memoirist. His work encompassed film and television, and he also performed as a voice actor. The achievement most closely associated with his name was his involvement in Friends, the American television comedy series, for which he received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series alongside the show's cast. He also received a TV Guide Award and Huading Awards during the course of his career. Beyond performing, Perry contributed to productions as a writer and producer, extending his participation behind the camera as well as in front of it.
Perry died on October 28, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Quotes by Matthew Perry
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Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
The thing that I’m most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, ‘I can’t stop drinking. I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say, ‘Yes, I can help you.’
I’ve just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I’m gay or not.
It’s tough to have a movie-star persona when you’re on a show as successful as ‘Friends.’
Chandler’s the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
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.
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.
Nine times out of 10, women don’t want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I’ll never get that.
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.