I just wanted to write something by myself because I'd never written anything by myself before. So these monologues came out; that was the first thing that came out, so I realized I was writing a play. And I like the theme of people trying to improve themselves, and that's what came out.

Matthew Perry

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I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

Matthew Perry

trouble

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Matthew Perry

trying inspirational laughing

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

addiction people thinking

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

Matthew Perry

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

yes-i-can proud drinking

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.

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cracks emotional people

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

senior kids school

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

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problem nine want

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.

Matthew Perry

emotional song years

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Matthew Perry

silence trying rooms

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

Matthew Perry

grew grew-up

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

light dark sides

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

rights believe ideas

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.

Matthew Perry

funny lying ideas

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

fans team kings

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

Matthew Perry

girl laughing fall

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

quirky use needs

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

Matthew Perry

beautiful kids hands

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

Matthew Perry

broken character people

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

Matthew Perry

chins necks flow