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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.

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Matthew Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 19
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Actor
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Williamstown
Massachusetts
Matthew Langford Perry
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I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
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I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.
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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.
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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?
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
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To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.
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