Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler is an American actress, comedian, director, producer and writer. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she went to New York City in 1996 to become part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group's act became a half-hour sketch comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler was a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth16 September 1971
CountryUnited States of America
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.
You can't look stupid if you're having fun.
Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.
No one looks stupid when they're having fun.
To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
Everything looked like you could run around in it you could catch a bus!
We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. I.O., Upright Citizens Brigade and 'SNL' have enabled me to do that.
We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can,
There's a couple of enemies to improv, and one of them is editing; when you edit on TV it makes it seem like it's not really improv.
I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'
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.
I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.