Quotes by Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler

[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.

Boston

College

Skills

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A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

Leader

Natural

Who Cares

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A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Brain

Tragedy

Writing

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Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Adventure

Heart

Soul

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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.

Collaboration

Interesting

Together

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Ang Lee’s been nominated for best director for “Life of Pi,” which is what I’m going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.

Directors

Dresses

Six

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

Actresses

Lying

Watches

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Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they’re, like, their most beautiful. It’s a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.

Beautiful

People

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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.

Able

Inspired

Kind

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As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you’re stupid, fat and ugly.

People

Stupid

Thinking

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