Quotes from Matthew Perry

I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

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

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.

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.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

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.

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

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

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.

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.

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!

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

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

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

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

I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.

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

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!