Amy Poehler Quotes - Page 10

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• I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids here?' It's such a weird question. Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are. It would be comparable to me going to a guy, 'Do you feel like you see your kids enough?'

  Amy Poehler

  Powerful, Kids, Men

  "Amy Poehler Is Really Making Herself Uncomfortable" by Benjamin Svetkey, www.fastcompany.com. May 11, 2015.

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• 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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• Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Special, Who Cares

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• Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

  Amy Poehler

  Way, Sometimes, Please

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

  Amy Poehler

  Neighbor, Embarrassment

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.

  Amy Poehler

  Night, Play, People

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, World, Embarrassed

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, People, Care

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• [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

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• Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.

  Amy Poehler

  Dirty, Opposites, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".

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  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• 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

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

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  Thinking, People, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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."

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  Nbc, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

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  Talking, Bars, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

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

  Amy Poehler

  Funeral, May, Host

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Amy Poehler

  Awards, People, Up To You

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

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

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Evening, Tone

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

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  Mother, People, Interesting

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

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Talking, Listening

  "How Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, David Wain and Michael Showalter Conducted the Most Perfect Junket Interview Ever". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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