Top 100 Amy Poehler Quotes

#1. Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

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

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#3. Sometimes we get defensive about what we feel guilty about.

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#4. It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

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#5. I mean, if my phone is trying to kill me then that crazy X-ray machine at airport security is a straight-up assassin.

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#6. The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

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#7. Hey Lady I don't want to fuck you husband .

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#8. watermelon cut in half and it was

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. Make "No." a complete sentence.

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#12. My high school musical did not offer a shirtless Zac Efron but it did provide me with many lessons. I learned that I loved being in a theatre, attending rehearsals, and building sets. I loved listening to the director and groaning about rehearsing choreography

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#13. I used to have a terrific flat stomach but now it's kind of blown out after two giant babies used it as a short-term apartment.

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#14. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!

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#15. 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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#16. 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.

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#17. If it's not funny, you don't have to laugh.

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#18. Feeling invisible means you can float. You can decide to travel without permission.

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#19. I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a group of like-minded friends whom I boss around in a gentle and loving way.

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#20. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

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#21. Acting lets you escape the real world and make out with people you are not married to. It lets you live in the skin of another person and run away from the person you actually are.

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#22. If I have learned anything from hip-hop, it's that there's nothing sexy about a baby that ain't yours.

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

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#24. 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.

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#25. I love you and I like you.

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#26. If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

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#27. If you don't eat pussy, keep walking.

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#28. Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

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#29. Writer for Conan, wrote a character for me called Andy's Little Sister. Her name was Stacey and she wore headgear and was obsessed with Conan.

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#30. The accent is a really hard thing for me. It reminds me of my family and my childhood, but it's one of the worst-sounding accents out there. I love Boston, but we sound like idiots.

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#31. Sexy stuff. We lived on a street called

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#32. I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my attempt to fake it until I make it, or at the very least make it easier for someone to slit my throat.

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#33. The strange thing is that the moment people start looking at you less is when you start being able to see through people more.

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#34. He would stand backstage and berate himself if he felt he didn't do a good job. It was almost like he couldn't hear how loud everyone was laughing.

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#35. You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

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#36. Wordsworth also said that the best part of a person's life is "his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love." I

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#37. And then you just do it. You just dig in and write it.

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#38. 1. We don't need it to last as long as you think. Hurry up. We are so tired.

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#39. Now on to politics. What's the deal, guys? Seriously. I mean, come on. Get it together. It's like, when are we going to wake up? It's all crazy. Who's with me. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

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#40. Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

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#41. Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers ... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.

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#42. I haven't lived a full enough life to look back on, but I am too old to get by on being pithy and cute. I know enough now to know I know nothing. I am slugging away every day, just like you.

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#43. Her name is Maya Rudolph! She is a goddamn baby champion and she pushed her cuties out Little House on the Prairie style!

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#44. 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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#45. If you said more than six lines on air you made six hundred dollars, and comedy pieces like "Staring Contest" helped pay my rent.

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#46. Most people I know struggle with that complicated soup of feeling slighted on one hand and like a total fraud on the other.

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#47. Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.

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#48. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.

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#49. 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.

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#50. Debbie Downer was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly.

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#51. I don't like it when bratty, privileged old white guys speak to me like I am their mouthy niece.

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#52. A lot of people don't know I am always thisfuckingclose to doing some crazy shit.

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#53. IN 1997, I PROUDLY DECLARED I WOULD NEVER OWN A CELL PHONE.

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#54. Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

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#55. I was happy when we were eventually fired, because I was convinced this Internet thing was a passing fad. This lack of technological foresight is why I am an actor.

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#56. I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

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#57. Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.

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#58. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and never make you truly whole.

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#59. When I left SNL, I gave Seth a badge of courage, like Dorothy give to the Cowardly Lion ... He kept it in his pocket during "Update" until he didn't need it anymore. Now it sits in a box on his desk at Late Night.

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#60. I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

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#61. Young people can remind us to take chances and be angry and stop our patterns. Old people can remind us to laugh more and get focused and make friends with our patterns.

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#62. You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

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#63. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

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#64. You become more attractive when you love yourself. You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

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#65. It's important to know when it's time to turn in your kazoo.

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#66. The eighties were a strange time for teenage fashion. We wore silk blouses and shoulder pads, neon earrings and jodhpur pants. Come to think of it, our pants were especially weird. We also wore stirrup pants, parachute pants, and velvet knickers. It was a real experimental pant time.

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#67. 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.

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

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#69. During an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday, Sarah Palin says she is not opposed to gay people, adding 'One of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her dearly and she doesn't exist.'

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#70. Men are very visual, so if you don't want them to notice your stomach, just put fake mustaches on your breasts to distract them.

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#71. You can't look stupid if you're having fun.

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#72. I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

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

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#74. I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.

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#75. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face. I command you!" and it doesn't listen. Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

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

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

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#78. The International Olympic Committee was worried people would walk into a one-hundred-seat theater on the corner of Clark and Addison and wonder why no one was jumping over hurdles. The

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#79. Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'.

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#80. BEN (CONT'D) I am deeply, ridiculously in love with you. Above everything else, I want to be with you, forever. So, Leslie Knope, w -

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#81. Sleep helps you win at life.

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#82. I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they "want to do" and start asking them what they don't want to do.

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#83. I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

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#84. Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.

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#85. Speaking of music, we will arrive with our own. We plan on delivering our baby to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's The Wall while simultaneously watching The Wizard of Oz. If this kid works with us, we guarantee your minds will be blown!

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#86. Tall women are attracted to my littleness. I have a lot of tall female friends. They like how I am always looking up to them and I like having the option to jump into their pocket if I want to hide.

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#87. I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

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#88. When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

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

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#90. Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television

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#91. I was out of the restaurant business but I still had my appetite. I turned toward my future, mouth watering.

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#92. It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

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#93. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

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#94. 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.

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#95. Is difficult. It's a weapon and a signal. It can paralyze or motivate. My

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#96. It can be hard, this life. Beautiful too.

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#97. 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.

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#98. Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

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#99. I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

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#100. When in doubt, make funny faces.

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