Top 350 Amy Poehler Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Calling people ‘sweetheart’ makes most people enraged.”

— Amy Poehler

153. “I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they’re kind of deadly. You’d be surprised. Unless they’re falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don’t have quite the same energy for some reason.”

— Amy Poehler

154. “I think if I have established anything in my book, it’s that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.”

— Amy Poehler

155. “Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee – no word on who will be the neck.”

— Amy Poehler

156. “Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.”

— Amy Poehler

157. “Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let’s dance!”

— Amy Poehler

158. “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

159. “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

160. “I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor.”

— Amy Poehler

161. “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

162. “It’s very hard to watch comedy for me, when I’m doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I’m jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I’m angry that I watched it.”

— Amy Poehler

163. “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

164. “Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.”

— Amy Poehler

165. “The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.”

— Amy Poehler

166. “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

167. “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

168. “It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.”

— Amy Poehler

169. “Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.”

— Amy Poehler

170. “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

171. “I get a little itchy if I don’t have some control.”

— Amy Poehler

172. “Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony.”

— Amy Poehler

173. “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.”

— Amy Poehler

174. “In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation’s image. Also hurting the nation’s image: letting people drown when it rains.”

— Amy Poehler

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

— Amy Poehler

176. “I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

— Amy Poehler

177. “According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he’d like to spend more time lying for his family.”

— Amy Poehler

178. “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

179. “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.”

— Amy Poehler

180. “If you’re a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you’re doing a sketch.”

— Amy Poehler

181. “I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.”

— Amy Poehler

182. “I do not improvise in heels.”

— Amy Poehler

183. “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

184. “The pressure of ‘what are you going to do?’ makes everyone feel like they haven’t done anything yet.”

— Amy Poehler

185. “I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go... The more I time-travel the more I learn I am always just where I need to be.”

— Amy Poehler

186. “You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.”

— Amy Poehler

187. “It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.”

— Amy Poehler

188. “I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.”

— Amy Poehler

189. “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

190. “Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”

— Amy Poehler

191. “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

192. “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

193. “The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC’s identity, to say, “We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business.””

— Amy Poehler

194. “It’s interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it’s like well, just like everybody else. It proves it’s a bad question.”

— Amy Poehler

195. “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.”

— Amy Poehler

196. “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

197. “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

198. “Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Seems like there should be. Let’s say it is Schaufenfrieglasploit.”

— Amy Poehler

199. “When you’re betrayed there’s a period of shame and then there’s always forgiveness.”

— Amy Poehler

200. “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.”

— Amy Poehler