Amy Poehler
If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.Collection: Goal
I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.Collection: Thinking
Looking silly can be ver powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.Collection: Beautiful
According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his familyCollection: Lying
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'Collection: Tuesday
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'Collection: Government
My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.Collection: Disappointment
Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.Collection: Tonight
Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.Collection: Rain
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.Collection: Life
I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.Collection: Eye
If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.Collection: Sleep
I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.Collection: Hate
Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.Collection: Book
Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. . . . Your creativity is not a bad boyfriend. It is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug.Collection: Beautiful
I believe great people do things before they are ready.Collection: Believe
If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.Collection: Lucky
Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!Collection: Being Yourself
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.Collection: Thinking
When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.Collection: Real
Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.Collection: Letting Go
I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.Collection: Believe
The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.Collection: Accomplishment
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.Collection: People
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.Collection: Writing
I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.Collection: Skating
Always remember your kid's name.Collection: Kids
Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.Collection: Adventure
That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'Collection: Motto
Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.Collection: People
Sleep helps you win at life.Collection: Sleep
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.Collection: Inspirational
It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.Collection: Desire
Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!Collection: Needs
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'Collection: Argument
Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.Collection: Cake
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.Collection: Cities
Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.Collection: Nice
Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.Collection: Directors
I know enough now to know I know nothing.Collection: Knowledge
I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.Collection: Men
Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony.Collection: Office
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.Collection: Children
Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.Collection: Monday
I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.Collection: Thinking
Other people are not medicine.Collection: Medicine
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.Collection: Dream
When in doubt, make funny faces.Collection: Doubt
The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.Collection: Heart