Quotes from Amy Poehler

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

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.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.

Limit your "always" and your "nevers."

It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there.

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).

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."

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.

Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

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