Amy Poehler Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

  Amy Poehler

  Mistake, Decision, Choices

• Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

  Amy Poehler

  Choices, Risk, Exciting

• Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

  Amy Poehler

  Play, People, Choices

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

• I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.

  Amy Poehler

  Eye, Feel Better, Jumping

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

• Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, Fun, Worry

  "Amy Poehler: 'I loved cocaine but eventually hated it' - actress opens up about her drugs past" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

• I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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