Amy Poehler

Great people do things before they’re ready.

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.

No one looks stupid when they’re having fun!

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

I remember Tina Fey wrote a play about Catherine the Great f**king a horse and I thought, ‘That lady is hot stuff, I wanna know her.’

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Die, but do not retreat.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.