1. “Find a friend who’ll quit something with you—you’ll be amazed what that does for a friendship.” – Matthew Perry
2. “I am enough. I am more than enough” – Matthew Perry
3. “I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.” – Matthew Perry
4. “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?” – Matthew Perry
5. “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.” – Matthew Perry
6. “I love the idea of ‘the one’ but I actually believe that there isn’t a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it’s all timing.” – Matthew Perry
7. “If you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror you will crash your car.” – Matthew Perry
8. “And have you ever stood on the water’s edge and tried to stop the wave? It goes on regardless of what we do, regardless of how hard we try. The ocean reminds us that we are powerless in comparison.” – Matthew Perry
9. “I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.” – Matthew Perry
10. “I don’t want to die, but if I have to in order to get sufficient drugs on board, then amen to oblivion.” – Matthew Perry
11. “My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.” – Matthew Perry
12. “That’s like the greatest experiences of my life still, ‘Friends,’ so it’s not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.” – Matthew Perry
13. “Drinkers think they are trying to escape, but really they are trying to overcome a mental disorder they didn’t know they had.” – Matthew Perry
14. “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.” – Matthew Perry
15. “My mind is out to kill me, and I know it. I am constantly filled with a lurking loneliness, a yearning, a clinging to the notion that something outside of me will fix me. But I had had all that outside had to offer!” – Matthew Perry
16. “These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.” – Matthew Perry
17. “I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There’s a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.” – Matthew Perry
18. “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
19. “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.” – Matthew Perry
20. “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
21. “I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.” – Matthew Perry
22. “If there’s a silence in a room I’ll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.” – Matthew Perry
23. “I think you have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.” – Matthew Perry
24. “I learned a valuable lesson doing ‘Mr. Sunshine,’ which is that I didn’t want to be in charge because it’s too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It’s like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.” – Matthew Perry
25. “You are everything I never knew that I always wanted.” – Matthew Perry
26. “I’ve been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.” – Matthew Perry
27. “There is nothing better than a world where everybody is just making each other laugh.” – Matthew Perry
28. “There’s nothing better than a world where everybody’s just trying to make each other laugh.” – Matthew Perry
29. “I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.” – Matthew Perry
30. “In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy – on prom night!” – Matthew Perry
31. “There was nowhere to turn. Everywhere I tried to hide, there I was.” – Matthew Perry
32. “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.’” – Matthew Perry
33. “I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.” – Matthew Perry
34. “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.” – Matthew Perry
35. “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
36. “And if you’re going to blame your parents for the bad stuff, you also have to give them credit for the good stuff.” – Matthew Perry
37. “Addiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn.” – Matthew Perry
38. “The path of least resistance is boring, and scars are interesting – they tell an honest story, and they are proof that a battle was fought, and in my case, hard-won.” – Matthew Perry
39. “If I had to do it all over again, would I still audition for Friends? You bet your ass I would. Would I drink again? You bet your ass I would. If I didn’t have alcohol to soothe my nerves and help me have fun, I would have leaped off a tall building sometime in my twenties.” – Matthew Perry
40. “I’m very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.” – Matthew Perry
41. “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.” – Matthew Perry
42. “Alcoholics hate two things: the way things are and change.” – Matthew Perry
43. “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.’” – Matthew Perry
44. “Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn’t like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.” – Matthew Perry
45. “If I could walk into the ‘Friends’ audition again and go or not go, I have to say it’s 50-50.” – Matthew Perry
46. “Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on ‘Friends.’” – Matthew Perry
47. “As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.” – Matthew Perry
48. “Being in a kitchen always brings to mind God. He showed up to me in a kitchen, of course, and in doing so, saved my life. God is always there for me now, whenever I clear my channel to feel his awesomeness. It’s hard to believe, given everything, that he still shows up for us mortals, but he does, and that’s the point: love always wins.” – Matthew Perry
49. “God is everywhere – you just have to clear your channel, or you’ll miss it.” – Matthew Perry
50. “I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There’s a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn’t get them, she’s probably not for me.” – Matthew Perry
51. “To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.” – Matthew Perry
52. “It’s not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.” – Matthew Perry
53. “Now, all these years later, I’m certain that I got famous so I would not waste my entire life trying to get famous. You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that.” – Matthew Perry
54. “There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way when you fight back.” – Matthew Perry
55. “I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.” – Matthew Perry
56. “I went to a high school that didn’t have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.” – Matthew Perry
57. “I sometimes do want to tell God to go fuck himself for making my road so hard.” – Matthew Perry
58. “Nine times out of 10, women don’t want to fix a problem; they just want to be understood. I’ll never get that.” – Matthew Perry
59. “I wasn’t fully me yet; I was just parts of me (and not the best parts, either).” – Matthew Perry
60. “After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.” – Matthew Perry
61. “No secret gets worse just because it has been told.” – Matthew Perry
62. “I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that’s for sure, for joking around.” – Matthew Perry
63. “As for my personal life, I’d love to start a family of my own. I think I’d make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.” – Matthew Perry
64. “Know more, say less.” – Matthew Perry
65. “A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.” – Matthew Perry
66. “When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh – like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.” – Matthew Perry
67. “I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.” – Matthew Perry
68. “The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I’m not happy because there’s nothing better for me than a world that everybody’s just trying to make each other laugh.” – Matthew Perry
69. “You never know where one thing will lead… I guess the lesson is, take every opportunity, because something might come of it.” – Matthew Perry
70. “I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.” – Matthew Perry
71. “I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.” – Matthew Perry
72. “If you like, you can consider what you’re about to read to be a message from the beyond, my beyond.” – Matthew Perry
73. “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.” – Matthew Perry
74. “They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you’re doing well.” – Matthew Perry
75. “I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada – nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.” – Matthew Perry
76. “I used to believe in a “Ms. Right”, but now i know there is like 4 million “Ms. Rights” and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.” – Matthew Perry
77. “I don’t have a very ‘masculine’ taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.” – Matthew Perry
78. “I’m not the biggest fan of confrontation. I ask a lot of questions. Just not out loud.” – Matthew Perry
79. “Nobody ever thinks that something really bad is going to happen to them. Until it does.” – Matthew Perry
80. “Chandler’s the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.” – Matthew Perry
81. “The thing is, if I don’t have sobriety, I don’t have anything.” – Matthew Perry
82. “My feeling on therapy is it’s a luxury, and if you’re fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that’s fortunate and you should go for it.” – Matthew Perry
83. “It’s tough to have a movie-star persona when you’re on a show as successful as ‘Friends.’” – Matthew Perry
84. “I’ve just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I’m gay or not.” – Matthew Perry
85. “I am me. And that should be enough, it always has been enough. I was the one who didn’t get that. And now I do. I’m an actor, I’m a writer. I’m a person. And a good one at that. I want good things for myself, and others, and I can continue to work for these things. There is a reason I’m still here. And figuring out why is the task that has been put in front of me. And it will be revealed. There is no rush, no desperation. Just the fact that I am here, and I care about people, is the answer. Now when I wake up, I wake up curious, wondering what the world has in store for me, and I for it. And that’s enough to go on.” – Matthew Perry
86. “Reality is an acquired taste.” – Matthew Perry
87. “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.” – Matthew Perry
88. “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
89. “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.” – Matthew Perry
90. “I made the choice to live in my head and not in my heart. It was safer in my head- -you couldn’t be broken there, not yet anyway.” – Matthew Perry
91. “I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it’s kind of the law that you love hockey.” – Matthew Perry
92. “I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.” – Matthew Perry
93. “But addiction wakes up before you do, and it wants you alone. Alcoholism will win every time. As soon as you raise your hand and say, “I’m having a problem,” alcohol sneers, You’re gonna say something about it? Fine, I’ll go away for a while. But I’ll be back. It never goes away for good.” – Matthew Perry
94. “The man takes the drink, the drink takes all the rest.” – Matthew Perry
95. “I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.” – Matthew Perry
96. “It is very odd to live in a world where if you died, it would shock people but surprise no one.” – Matthew Perry
97. “I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.” – Matthew Perry
98. “I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.” – Matthew Perry
99. “I don’t need to be reminded that I was on ‘Friends.’ I remember – some of it, anyway.” – Matthew Perry
100. “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.” – Matthew Perry
101. “Do you know what St. Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?” – Matthew Perry