Amy Poehler Quotes

If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.

Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.

I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.

We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means someone's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys that moonlight is a magic blanket and the stars above are campfires set by friendly aliens.

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let's say its schaufenfrieglasploit.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you.

You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.