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It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.
Amy Poehler
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Amy Poehler
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 16
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Newton
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Amy Meredith Poehler
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[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
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We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.
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Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!
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It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.
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Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.
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Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
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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. We can write our own.
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I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
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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.
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Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.
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My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.
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If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.
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Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.
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Great people do things before they're ready...You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
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In my twenties I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated. Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play Ping-Pong all night. It's bad for almost everything else.
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