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Amy Poehler Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“Well, I like porn, and I think that people should do whatever they want. But the point being that this generation is so—porn is so accessible that sometimes guys don’t actually connect to the person that’s in front of them.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Porn, Alienation, hookup culture
“Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head? Well, I know. Well, I know Riley’s head.”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Wonder, Head, Inside
“Time is money; Money is power; Power is pizza; Pizza is knowledge. Let’s go!”
— April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 6: Second Chunce
Tagged: humor, Funny, Power, Pizza, Knowledge, Money
“You can’t focus on what’s going wrong. There’s always a way to turn things around, to find the fun.”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Focus, Wrong, turn things around, Fun
“Yeah, as soon as I walk into a party, I just want to leave. I just want to go home. I think as I get older, I’ve just gotten more anxiety around other people. I don’t know, I just feel less interested in a lot of people’s energy.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Introvert, party
“Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: opportunities, risks, chances
“I don't know what I'm doing. I was gonna go home and fuck this guy, but now I just feel so profoundly empty.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Russian Doll, I Feel Empty, I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here
“Lawrence: Hey park lady! You suck.

Leslie: Hear that? He called me park lady.”
— Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation, Season 1: Canvassing
Tagged: Lady, you suck, Insult, Optimistic
“Pawnee's Library Department is the most diabolical, ruthless bunch of bureaucrats I've ever seen. They're like a biker gang but instead of shotguns and crystal meth they use political savvy and shhhing.”
— Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 2: Ron and Tammy
Tagged: Diabolical, Ruthless, Biker Gang, Political Savvy
“Steve, I would prefer to forego your input since it most recently resulted in my brother becoming fat, unemployed and growing that supremely antisocial beard.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: fat, unemployed, beard, Anti-Male
“Terri: Look at her, the slutty, wicked stepmother. You can practically see through that dress.

Red: I don't think so.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: wicked stepmother, see-through dress
“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"
Tagged: Bossy, Women, strength, feminism
“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: kindness, Alone, Friendship
“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.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Tragedy, Change, Choices
“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, Yes Please
Tagged: 20 somethings, Future, Career, Dreams, aspirations
“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Gets Real, Shares the Best Body Image Advice You May Hear From a Celeb
Tagged: Life
“Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Permission, Personality
“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Passion, Learning
“I just love bossy women. I could be around the all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.”
— Amy Poehler, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images
Tagged: Amy Poehler, Strong Women, Independent
“Creativity lives inside all of us.”
— Herself - Host, Making It, Season 1: Meet Your Makers
Tagged: Creativity, Life, live
“Metaphors are boring, like baseball.”
— Duncan, Duncanville, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Metaphor, baseball, Boring, Simile Examples
“Fun is for suckers.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Fun, Sucker, Loser
“And you know, whoever was really the thing when you were a teenager—not to make him feel old, but same with Rob Lowe. I worked with Rob Lowe. When Rob Lowe came out of the shower in The Outsiders, I was, like, fourteen. And I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I tell Rob Lowe that all the time.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Rob Lowe, Teen Crushes
“Me and cocaine are like oil and vinegar.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Drugs, Metaphor Examples
“Let's fuck this party on the mouth.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: The Great Escape
Tagged: party, Wild, Good Time
“Let's make some choices.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Choice, decisions in life
“Who loves drugs more than me?”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: The Great Escape
Tagged: Drugs
“Lucky for me, I've processed all my feelings. And I've gone through the five stages of grief: Denial, anger, internet commenting, cat adoption, African dance, cat returning to the adoption place, watching all the episodes of Murphy Brown, and not giving a flying fart.”
— Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 6: Second Chunce
Tagged: Feelings, Grief, Anger, Murphy Brown, emotions
“Driving is old-fashioned and boring, like baseball. ”
— Duncan, Duncanville, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Driving, Old, Old Fashioned, Boring, Simile Examples, baseball
“Parking enforcement. Prepare to die.”
— Annie, Duncanville, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Parking, Threat, Prepare To Die
“I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and in between setups while I shot a television show. I wrote this book from scribbled thoughts I keep in the Notes app on my iPhone and conversations I had in my own head before I went to sleep. I wrote it ugly and in pieces.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writing
“He went on and on about how weird that was. He pointed out that people were really starting to know my name and asked me if  I 'could believe it.' 'Yes.' I said. I had worked for over a decade to get to this moment. I hadn't just dropped my script in someone's lap on a train. 'Can you?' I asked him.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Celebrity Break Up, Divorce
“ It was kind of like—I don’t know if I want to get into that. But I do think that it’s interesting when you go through a divorce how everybody divorce is, like, not that special. So people are kind of interested, and then they’re just not anymore. It’s kind of like you get all the pain, but really none of the sympathy. You know, ’cause it’s so common.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Divorce, sympathy
“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, ‘You aren’t pretty,’ and you go, ‘I know, I know, now let me find my earrings.’ Sometimes you say, ‘Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Self-Love, Happiness, Age, Youth, beauty, Self-Acceptance, Womanhood
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