Top 350 Amy Poehler Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.”

— Amy Poehler

52. “If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.”

— Amy Poehler

53. “If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.”

— Amy Poehler

54. “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

55. “I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.”

— Amy Poehler

56. “Remember, the talking about the thing isn’t the thing. Doing the thing is the thing.”

— Amy Poehler

57. “Creativity is connected to passion – that light inside that drives you.”

— Amy Poehler

58. “Make no a complete sentence.”

— Amy Poehler

59. “Just breathe. Sometimes you’re only a few breaths away from feeling better.”

— Amy Poehler

60. “Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.”

— Amy Poehler

61. “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

62. “Don’t start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner’s eyes. You will feel better.”

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

64. “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

65. “People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.”

— Amy Poehler

66. “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

67. “The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.”

— Amy Poehler

68. “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.”

— Amy Poehler

69. “I’ve always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.”

— Amy Poehler

70. “Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.”

— Amy Poehler

71. “Be nice, tell your woman she is hot, never shame her, and never hurt her.”

— Amy Poehler

72. “You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”

— Amy Poehler

73. “Dancing is the great equalizer. It gets people out of their heads and into their bodies. I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world.”

— Amy Poehler

74. “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

75. “Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I’m talking about.”

— Amy Poehler

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do. Instead of asking students to ‘declare their major’ we should ask students to ‘list what they will do anything to avoid.’ It just makes a lot more sense.”

— Amy Poehler

81. “I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.”

— Amy Poehler

82. “In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can’t, I will lend you mine.”

— Amy Poehler

83. “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

84. “When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day...”

— Amy Poehler

85. “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

86. “Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.”

— Amy Poehler

87. “Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.”

— Amy Poehler

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else’s. It doesn’t matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”

— Amy Poehler

91. “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

92. “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

93. “It doesn’t matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

95. “When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.”

— Amy Poehler

96. “I don’t think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.”

— Amy Poehler

97. “Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss 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.”

— Amy Poehler

98. “In a recent Valentine’s Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that – oh, who cares?”

— Amy Poehler

99. “Don’t treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.”

— Amy Poehler

100. “I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don’t. Who cares?”

— Amy Poehler