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.

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

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

I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.