Quotes from Luke Perry

It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.

When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

For me as an actor, I oftentimes wish producers would take a chance and cast me against type, and they often don't, so when you get a chance, you do it. At least I do.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

I love where I come from. The people there are good people. When they say, 'Thank you,' they mean it.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

I have significantly cut down on the amount of red meat I eat.

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

I'm not worried about being a big star.

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.

At one point or another, everybody gets called 'the new James Dean.'

I'm not James Dean. And no one else is, either.

So many people could save a life if they just go and have a colonoscopy, but you've got to do something about that.

I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.

I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.