Amy Poehler

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

The anticipation for Tina playing Palin was so fun to witness, and she explains it well in her book Fifty Shades of Grey. She totally took on what was expected of her and it was awesome to stand next to her as she killed.

So I’m licking jelly off my boyfriend and all of a sudden, I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m turning into my mother.

No one looks stupid when they’re having fun!

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

I really do believe that anything in life – any obstacle or challenge – can be made better with humor.

I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.

If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone.

You know, as a comedian your body has to be – I need to think of a better term than ‘up for grabs’ – but you kind of use whatever you have to get the laugh. And if you’re worrying about how you look… Vanity is the death of comedy.

I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

The anticipation for Tina playing Palin was so fun to witness, and she explains it well in her book Fifty Shades of Grey. She totally took on what was expected of her and it was awesome to stand next to her as she killed.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.