Amy Poehler Quotes

I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it m...

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnera...

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...

There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly ...

But I was eventually okay. And you will be okay too. Here's why. I had already made a decision early...

Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people wi...

Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the ring...

I have the Angela Jolie of vaginas.

I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and ac...

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Here's the thing. Your career won't take care of you. It won...

I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my...

Calling someone equally as anxious on the phone makes you feel less alone. Sometimes the best thing ...

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned kn...

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you.

Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Ev...

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I s...

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is ...

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel li...

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are...

I often look to men to model behavior," she goes on after a pause. "Not because I want to squelch wh...

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Dating in highschool was very different. Boys suddenly went up your shirt, girls were expected to gi...

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys th...

I love saying “yes” and I love saying “please.” Saying “yes” doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no...

I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key ...

I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily ...

Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh...

Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The trut...

I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch...

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Y...

You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you n...

Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a rom...

Fake boobs are weird ya'll" read by Patrick Stewart.

So what do I do? What do we do? How do we move forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do w...

You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, ‘I made it!’ You will rarely feel...

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

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for th...

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting y...

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an abili...

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.

We kept our heads down and did our jobs. We controlled the only thing we could, which was the show. ...

Look at this woman. This beauty. What an act of grace. What a gift she gave me.Shame makes people ab...

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scare...

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...

Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell ...

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there...

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

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is t...

Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zo...

Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and q...

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ta...

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains e...

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or...

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and ...

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enrichi...