Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is a Canadian-American actor and playwright known for his role as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC television sitcom Friends.
Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends. '
When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else. ' But, I have to battle that one, too.
Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.
'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.
'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.
I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.
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.
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.
I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck. ' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
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. '
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.
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 don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.
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. '
I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.
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.
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!