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"I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but... ...
Amy Poehler
"We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5 minutes later they'd come back, 'Bad news: we lost your list. But good news: we've... ...
Amy Poehler
"I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor."
Amy Poehler
"When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at... ...
Amy Poehler
"When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening."
Amy Poehler
"Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men."
Amy Poehler
"Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe... ...
Amy Poehler
"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."
Amy Poehler
"If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch."
Amy Poehler
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