Latest Amy Poehler Quotes from Interviews

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• When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

  Amy Poehler

  Betrayed, Shame, Periods

• Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

  Amy Poehler

  Possibility

• I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Hands, Two

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Men, Way

  Source: www.people.com

• 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.

  Amy Poehler

  Juicy, Want, Plus

  Source: www.people.com

• I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

  Amy Poehler

  Art, Air, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.

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  Stupid, Fall, Swings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Challenges, Nervous

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Amy Poehler

  Creating, Actors, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  Amy Poehler

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Rights

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, Rights, Issues

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

  Amy Poehler

  Needs, Quitting, Sometimes

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.

  Amy Poehler

  Interesting, Together, Collaboration

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• 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.

  Amy Poehler

  Together, Fey, Lines

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Past, Self

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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

  Amy Poehler

  Able, Kind, Inspired

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.

  Amy Poehler

  Beautiful, People, Care

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, School, College

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• [At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

  Amy Poehler

  College, Boston, Skills

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.

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  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Crazy, Believe

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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

  Amy Poehler

  Pain, People, Withdrawal

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• 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.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, People, Interesting

• It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

  Amy Poehler

  Jealous, Watches, Comedy

  "For Amy Poehler, Comedy Is A Walk In The 'Park'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 18, 2009.

• Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, Games, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com