Matt LeBlanc

Actor

1967-07-25

Matt LeBlanc is an American actor known for portraying Joey Tribbiani in the television sitcom Friends and its spin-off Joey.

Quotes by Matt LeBlanc

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
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But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.
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People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
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I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
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I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.
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I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
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I started going gray in my early twenties.
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In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
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I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?
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'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
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