Matthew Perry Quotes

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

I enjoy watching Daniel Day Lewis, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey.

Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

I'm a character actress.

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

I'm going to be an actor.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.

Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

Eric Stoltz was a very good actor.