Amy Poehler Quotes
I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
-
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
-
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
-
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
-
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
-
How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
-
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
-
I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
-
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
-
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
-
My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
-
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
-
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
-
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
-
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
-
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
-
Let's have some new cliches.
-
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
-
If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
-
Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?
-
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
-
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
-
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
-
I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.
