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Matthew Perry
12 quotes
“I think actors look for good material and I had heard about this script by Aaron and I read it and thought I had to come back to television. I'm here mostly because of how good the script is and how bad The Whole 10 Yards was.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On joining the NBC program Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – Kevin D. Thompson (September 18, 2006) "'Studio 60' Is Best Show of the Fall", Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., p. 1D
“I thought it would be interesting if I came back to television to play somebody somewhat dark. What's bizarre is that we're shooting seven feet from the Friends stage. I know how long it takes to get here from my house.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marc Peyser (September 4, 2006) "Falling for Fall: What's Cool and Coming Your Way: Summer's ending. Get over it. Here's a look at the riches of autumn. First up, 'West Wing' creator Aaron Sorkin rides again with the te…
“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 (1969–2023) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lawrie Masterson (October 10, 2004) "Prime Time", The Sunday Telegraph, News Limited, p. V05
“I'm not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GQ (November 2000)
“It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the end of the television program Friends – Susan Young (May 6, 2004) "Adios, amigos: ' Friends ' signs off after a decade of good times", Alameda Times-Star
“It's been more than a show. It's been a wonderful support group. It's a group of people that love each other, that come together every day to try to make America laugh. What better thing is there to do than that?”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gail Pennington (May 2, 2004) "Farewell, "Friends": Sitcom's Finale on Thursday Night May Draw Up to 85 Million Viewers", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1
“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 (1969–2023) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Neil Norman (May 1, 2003) "Back from the brink: Fame almost destroyed Friends star Matthew Perry. Now, as he makes his West End stage debut, he tells Neil Norman how he beat his addictions", Evening Standard, Associated…
“I've been in the public eye for nine years, and I've gone through different phases with it. At first I loved it. Finally, there's a light shining on me and I've wanted that all this time. Then there were a couple of years where I almost became reclusive because it bothered me so much. The trick is to be able to look at it as something that's ethereal and not real. Fame, or whatever that is, isn't tangible. You can't hang your hat on it. You must be able to sit under your covers and giggle about the nonsense of all of it.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsday staff (September 13, 2002) "START / Fast Chat Matthew Perry", Newsday, Newsday Inc., p. D03
“Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frazier Moore, Associated Press (August 22, 2002) "Perry pondering life after 'Friends'", Deseret Morning News, Deseret News Publishing Co., p. C04
“The best way I can describe it is: after the show was over, at a party or any — any kind social gathering, if one of us bumped into each other, that was it, that was the end of the night. We just sat with the person all night long — and that was it. You apologized to the people that you were with, but they had to understand you had met somebody special to you, and you were going to talk to that person for the rest of the night. And that's the way it worked. It's certainly the way it worked with all of us. It's just the way it is. … Now, I'm gonna cry now.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Closing remarks at the end of Friends: The Reunion (2021)
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Matthew Perry on Dating Julia Roberts in the '90s: It 'Had Been Too Much for Me'". People. 24 October 2022
“Shoot me up with a big one.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Matthew Perry's last words to assistant revealed as details of star's final days emerge". Associated Press. 17 August 2024