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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

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Matthew Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Williamstown
Massachusetts
Matthew Langford Perry
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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.
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To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
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I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
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I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.
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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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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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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.
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I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
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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 would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
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My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.
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Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
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