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• 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

  Thinking, Guy, Would Be

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• 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.

  Matthew Perry

  Kids, Laughing, Ensemble

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Emotional

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

  Matthew Perry

  Flow, Necks, Chins

  "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.

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• I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

  Matthew Perry

  Dark, Light, Sides

  "Prime Time". Lawrie Masterson, The Sunday Telegraph, October 10, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Quirky, Needs, Use

  "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Husband, Dad, Thinking

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• 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.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Talking, Causes

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• 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

  Kings, Team, Fans

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• 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.

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  Smart, Important, Going Away

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• 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

  Character, Guy, Rooms

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

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  Taste In Music, Heat, Masculine

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• Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I dont talk about it too much in the press is because it isnt funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesnt seem right.

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  Pills, Littles, Too Much

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• 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.

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  Girl, Real, Stress

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• After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

  Matthew Perry

  Laughing, Firsts, Stage

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• I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

  Matthew Perry

  Party, Thinking, Used

  "For a Struggling 'Friend,' a New Shot". Interview with Joe Rhodes, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

  Matthew Perry

  Trouble, Intimacy, Wells

  "Best Friend Forever". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. September 22, 2006.

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

  Matthew Perry

  Names, Attention, Come Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Smart, Luxury, People

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• 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

  Trying, Gone, Whole Life

  "FILM; The Fame He Craved Came, but It Wasn't Enough" By Dana Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Order, Addiction, Trying

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• 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.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Running, Jeans

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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.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Half, Dinner

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Matthew Perry

  Auditions, Walks, If I Could

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

  Matthew Perry

  Writing, Years, Remember

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