110+ Amy Poehler Quotes On Friendship, Snl And Louis Ck

Amy Poehler is an American comedian, actress, director, producer, and writer. She is best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, and Inside Out. She has won numerous awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for her work in television. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Amy Poehler on love, friendship, leadership.

Top 10 Amy Poehler Quotes

1. We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.
2. Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
3. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
4. I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
5. There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
6. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.
7. Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
8. 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 who dream and support and do things.
9. You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
10. Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

Amy Poehler Short Quotes

• No one looks stupid when they're having fun.
• I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
• Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
• Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.
• It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
• If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
• In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.
• I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.
• It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.
• I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

Amy Poehler Quotes About Love

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

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. — Amy Poehler

Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life. — Amy Poehler

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares? — Amy Poehler

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters. — Amy Poehler

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself. — Amy Poehler

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love. — Amy Poehler

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. — Amy Poehler

I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid. — Amy Poehler

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

Amy Poehler Quotes About Funny

When in doubt, make funny faces. — Amy Poehler

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

Always remember your kid's name. — Amy Poehler

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius. — Amy Poehler

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

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh. — Amy Poehler

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

Amy Poehler Quotes About People

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. — Amy Poehler

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine. — Amy Poehler

I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious. — Amy Poehler

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep. — Amy Poehler

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank. — Amy Poehler

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself. — Amy Poehler

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. — 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

Amy Poehler Quotes About Class

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. — Amy Poehler

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. — Amy Poehler

My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, “You did it! You showed up! Let’s lie down.” We all lie down and she’s like, “How is everybody feeling?” We’re like, “Great!” And the teacher’s like, “Great!” Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early. — Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler Quotes About Talented

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men. — Amy Poehler

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

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

Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff. — Amy Poehler

Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent. — Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler Famous Quotes And Sayings

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth. — Amy Poehler

Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better. — Amy Poehler

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is. — Amy Poehler

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.' — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. — Amy Poehler

When you do talk about yourself, or to yourself... try to picture you talking to your own daughter, or your younger sister. Because you would tell your younger sister or your daughter that she is beautiful, and you wouldn't be lying. Because she is. And so are you. — Amy Poehler

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women. — Amy Poehler

Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. That joy that comes when you do something you love. That small voice that tells you, 'I like this. Do this again. You are good at it. Keep going.' That is the juicy stuff that lubricates our lives and helps us feel less alone in the world. — Amy Poehler

I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday. — Amy Poehler

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. — 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. 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

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet. — Amy Poehler

I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman. — Amy Poehler

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

Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life. — Amy Poehler

You have to be where you are to get where you need to go. — Amy Poehler

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are. — Amy Poehler

Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier. — Amy Poehler

Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it. — Amy Poehler

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. — Amy Poehler

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. — Amy Poehler

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done. — Amy Poehler

There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be. — Amy Poehler

I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy. — Amy Poehler

I believe great people do things before they are ready. — Amy Poehler

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

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

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler. — Amy Poehler

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse! — Amy Poehler

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television. — Amy Poehler

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. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. — Amy Poehler

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end. — Amy Poehler

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on. — 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' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've got a trash bag full of weed!' — Amy Poehler

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor. — Amy Poehler

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off. — Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff. — Amy Poehler

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties. — Amy Poehler

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

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. — Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake. — Amy Poehler

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

Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. 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 will never make you truly whole. — Amy Poehler

My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. — Amy Poehler

A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there. — Amy Poehler

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix. — Amy Poehler

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. — Amy Poehler

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?' — Amy Poehler

I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life. — Amy Poehler

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

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world. — Amy Poehler

Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when. — 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 to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... 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. — Amy Poehler

Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave. — Amy Poehler

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.' — Amy Poehler

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

When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person. — Amy Poehler

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment. — Amy Poehler

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around. — Amy Poehler

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never. — Amy Poehler

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are. — Amy Poehler

Life Lessons by Amy Poehler

1. Amy Poehler's work teaches us to be brave and take risks, even when it feels like the odds are against us.
2. She also shows us the importance of being open to collaboration and working with others to create something bigger than ourselves.
3. Finally, she emphasizes the power of embracing our own unique sense of humor and using it to bring joy to the world.