Actor

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

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.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

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.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

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

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

My favorite actor was, is, Michael Keaton. Certainly growing up, in the movie 'Night Shift' he did something brand new that I hadn't seen before that we all steal from now. And then it was in 1987 he did the movie 'Clean and Sober' and 'Beetlejuice' in the same year, and that was when I said, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.'

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

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

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

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 just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.