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
I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.
Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.
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.
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.
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.
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.
I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.
Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.
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.
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
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.
I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
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.