My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. Amy Poehler More Quotes by Amy Poehler More Quotes From Amy Poehler I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around. Amy Poehler juicy plus want I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is. Amy Poehler cheer age matter Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and ugly undercurrent. But that's ridiculous. My mother was a feminist and she was very politically-minded and always anxious to defend women's rights and advance a lot of social issues for women. Amy Poehler issues rights mother We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends. Amy Poehler fey lines together I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff. Amy Poehler want fall thinking It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question. Amy Poehler mother people interesting Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really. Amy Poehler games long believe If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch. Amy Poehler enough people thinking I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening. Amy Poehler listening talking thinking When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening. Amy Poehler evening tone fun The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business." Amy Poehler nbc identity desire We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?" Amy Poehler bars stories talking Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot. Amy Poehler opposites people dirty I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2". Amy Poehler play character thinking An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all. Amy Poehler collaboration together interesting Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented. Amy Poehler inspired able kind I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid. Amy Poehler growing-up kids children It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it. Amy Poehler jealous comedy watches The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth. Amy Poehler fireplaces digital computer There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows. Amy Poehler stress believe people
