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Amy Poehler

71 quotesTelevision Actor · Born Sep 16, 1971 · United States Of America · Female

Amy Meredith Poehler (/ˈpoʊlər/; born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, director, producer, and writer. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she went to New York City in 1996 to become part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group's act became a half-hour sketch comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler was a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She is best known by starring as Leslie Knope in the NBC's sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy Series in 2014 and a Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012. Poehler was a cast member on the NBC television series Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008 and became co-anchor of SNL's Weekend Update in 2004 alongside friend and colleague Tina Fey. She is also known for voicing Joy from Inside Out, Sally O'Malley from the Horton Hears a Who! movie adaption, Bessie Higgenbottom in the 2008–2011 Nickelodeon series, The Mighty B! and Homily Clock from the American-English dub of The Secret World of Arrietty. Poehler served as an executive producer on the Swedish-American sitcom Welcome to Sweden, along with her brother Greg Poehle

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From “The Great Escape”

Who loves drugs more than me?

Drugs

From “Howard Stern Comes Again”

Well, I like porn, and I think that people should do whatever they want. But the point being that this generation is so—porn is so accessible that sometimes guys don’t actually connect to the person that’s in front of them.

Porn Alienation hookup culture

And you know, whoever was really the thing when you were a teenager—not to make him feel old, but same with Rob Lowe. I worked with Rob Lowe. When Rob Lowe came out of the shower in The Outsiders, I was, like, fourteen. And I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I tell Rob Lowe that all the time.

Rob Lowe Teen Crushes

Yeah, as soon as I walk into a party, I just want to leave. I just want to go home. I think as I get older, I’ve just gotten more anxiety around other people. I don’t know, I just feel less interested in a lot of people’s energy.

Introvert party

It was kind of like—I don’t know if I want to get into that. But I do think that it’s interesting when you go through a divorce how everybody divorce is, like, not that special. So people are kind of interested, and then they’re just not anymore. It’s kind of like you get all the pain, but really…

Divorce sympathy

From “Meet Your Makers”

Creativity lives inside all of us.

Creativity Life live

From “Pilot”

Parking enforcement. Prepare to die.

Parking Threat Prepare To Die

Check your side mirror, check your rearview mirror, check the backseat for murders.

Mirrors check Murder

Metaphors are boring, like baseball.

Metaphor baseball Boring Simile Examples

Driving is old-fashioned and boring, like baseball.

Driving Old Old Fashioned Boring Simile Examples

From “Moxie”

When I was 16, all I cared about was smashing the patriarchy and burning it down.

Patriarchy toxic masculinity burn

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