Matthew Perry Fun Facts

"All right, kids, I gotta get to work. If I don't input those numbers... it doesn't make much of a difference." Chandler

Stats:

Full Name: Matthew Langford Perry
Cretided As: Matther Perry, Matther L. Perry
Character Name: Chandler Muriel Bing
D.O.B: August 19, 1969 - Leo
Place of Birth:Williamstown, Massachusetts
Height:6' 1"
Family:Father - John Bennett Perry (actor; remarried to Debbie Perry); Mother - Suzanne Perry Morrison (anadian; former press secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada; remarried to Keith Morrison)

Interesting Facts:

• Attended a private high school and college.
• Dated Julia Roberts in 1995, after she appeared on "Friends."
• Matthew has dual citizenship in Canada and USA.
• Matthew's father, played his father in "Fools Rush In."
• Perry was nationally ranked in junior tennis in Canada. He tried to play in the US, but wasn't good enough.
• Matthew is missing part of his middle finger on his right hand.
• On Feb. 27, 2001, Perry entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of an undisclosed condition.
• He enjoys playing ice hockey and softball in his spare time.

Quotes

"I was the coolest guy of the non-cool crowd"

"When I read the script of Chandler, I thought WOW I can really shake hands with this guy. Chandlers a Sarcastic guy, dry, funny - a guy who's not comfortable unless he's jokin and hiding the emotional stuff that's going on with him. And Yeah, I can relate to that a bit"

"Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn't good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I've just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there."

"After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked."

"As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible."

"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."

"Everything is just falling into place for me right now. I just turned 30, which I thought I was going to be bummed about, but I'm not."

"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."

"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."

"I realized by the time I turned 30, which happened this year, that I would be going out with girls and they would think I was really funny, but I would know absolutely nothing about them. I decided that's just not the way to go. I have tried to listen more and get to know the person I'm with."

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

"I was like: I'm going to ask Julia Roberts out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous."

"I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album."

"I'm obviously comfortable with my feminine side! I didn't have any reservations playing a gay guy as it was kind of a neat idea to me. I'm able to drop all the crappy male stuff of trying to impress the girl and get her into bed, because she thinks I'm gay."

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

"If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible."

"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."

"The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh."

"The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers."

"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."

"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."

"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."

Movies

Numb (2007) (Post-production)
Beginning of Wisdom, The (2005)
Whole Ten Yards, The (2004)
Fever (2003)
Serving Sara (2002)
Disney's The Kid (2000)
Whole Nine Yards, The (2000)
Three to Tango (1999)
Almost Heroes (1998)
Fools Rush In (1997)
Getting In (1994)
She's Out of Control (1989)
Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, A (1988)

Microsoft Win 95 Video Guide (voice) (1995)

Writer

Imagining Emily (1999)

TV Appearances

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-...)
Day with, A (1995) (TV) as Himself
"Friends" (1994-2004) Series
Parallel Lives (1994) (TV)
"Home Free" (1993) Series
Deadly Relations (1993) (TV)
Call Me Anna (1990) (TV)
"Sydney" (1990) Series
Dance 'Til Dawn (1988) (TV)
"Second Chance" aka "Boys Will Be Boys"(1987) Series

Guest Appearances

"Ally McBeal" (2002) (episode # 5.16 & # 5.17)
"Simpsons, The" (2001) (voice) (episode # 13.1)
"Caroline in the City" (1995) (episode # 1.6)
"John Larroquette Show, The" (1995) (episode # 2.21)
"Dream On" (1992) (episode # 3.23)
"Beverly Hills, 90210" (1991) (episode # 1.18)
"Sibs" (1991) (episode # 1.18)
"Who's the Boss?" (1990) (episode # 7.8)
"Growing Pains" (1989) (episode # 4.20)
"Empty Nest" (1989) (episode # 1.22)
"Growing Pains" (1989) (episode # 4.15)
"Growing Pains" (1989) (episode # 4.11)
"Highway to Heaven" (1988) (episode # 5.2)
"Just the Ten of Us" (1988) (episode # 2.4)
"Mr. Belvedere" (1988) (episode # 4.16)
"Tracey Ullman Show, The" (1987)
"Silver Spoons" (1986) (episode # 5.7)
"Charles in Charge" (1985) (episode # 1.20)
"240-Robert" (1979) (episode # 1.6)

Write to Matthew Perry at:

Mathhew Perry
Bright/Kauffman/Crane Prods.
Building 136, Suite 226
Burbank, CA