Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

— Amy Poehler

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

— Amy Poehler

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

— Amy Poehler

You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

— Amy Poehler

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

— Amy Poehler

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

— Amy Poehler

“I immediately decided this was not my problem, and the relief of that decision spread across my chest like hot cocoa. Too…

— Amy Poehler

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier…

— Amy Poehler

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

— Amy Poehler

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you…

— Amy Poehler

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your…

— Amy Poehler

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan…

— Amy Poehler

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a…

— Amy Poehler

I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own…

— Amy Poehler

I want girls to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not…

— Amy Poehler

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing…

— Amy Poehler

We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great'…

— Amy Poehler

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.…

— Amy Poehler

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…

— Amy Poehler

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you…

— Amy Poehler

When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister.…

— Amy Poehler

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

— Amy Poehler

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

— Amy Poehler

I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

— Amy Poehler

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

— Amy Poehler

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

— Amy Poehler

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

— Amy Poehler

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

— Amy Poehler

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

— Amy Poehler