Amy Poehler Quotes

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Amy Poehler

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Everything

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Die

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Health
  • Happiness

• 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Money
  • Control
  • Comedy

• I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Comedy

• Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

  

  David Sutcliffe
  • Work
  • Done
  • She

• I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Up
  • Live
  • Comedy

• When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Comedy
  • Pregnant
  • Sombrero