Top 100 Matthew Perry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that’s for sure, for joking around.”

— Matthew Perry

56. “There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There’s, ‘Oh, no, I’m going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,’ but there’s also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It’s now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.”

— Matthew Perry

57. “I’ve just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I’m gay or not.”

— Matthew Perry

58. “I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.”

— Matthew Perry

59. “I’m very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.”

— Matthew Perry

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.”

— Matthew Perry

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Matthew Perry

68. “To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.”

— Matthew Perry

69. “I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I’m 41.”

— Matthew Perry

70. “As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.”

— Matthew Perry

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

— Matthew Perry

72. “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

73. “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”

— Matthew Perry

74. “It’s not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.”

— Matthew Perry

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.”

— Matthew Perry

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I’m just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I’d never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn’t be working.”

— Matthew Perry

83. “My grandfather, the wonderful Alton L. Perry, grew up around an alcoholic father, and as a result, he never touched a drink in his life, all ninety-six long, wonderful years of it. I am not my grandfather.”

— Matthew Perry

84. “I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.”

— Matthew Perry

85. “It’s tough to have a movie-star persona when you’re on a show as successful as ‘Friends.’”

— Matthew Perry

86. “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

87. “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

88. “You never know where one thing will lead... I guess the lesson is, take every opportunity, because something might come of it.”

— Matthew Perry

89. “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

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

— Matthew Perry

92. “It is very odd to live in a world where if you died, it would shock people but surprise no one.”

— Matthew Perry

93. “I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.”

— Matthew Perry

94. “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

95. “Addiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn.”

— Matthew Perry

96. “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

97. “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

98. “Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.”

— Matthew Perry

99. “When a woman comes over to your place, and she takes her shoes off, you are going to get laid. If she leaves them on, you won’t.”

— Matthew Perry

100. “So, I will leave you first. I will fabricate in my mind that something went wrong with you, and I’ll believe it. And I’ll leave. But something can’t be wrong with all of them. What’s the common denominator here?”

— Matthew Perry