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Amy Poehler Biography

Amy Poehler /ˈpoʊlər/ (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, voice artist, comedian, director, producer, and writer. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she became part of the Chicago-based improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group moved to New York City in 1996 where their 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.

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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?"

Bar, Bars, Leave, Stories, Talking, Thought

Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

Caring, Insulting, Mind, Whole, Speak

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.

Answer, Broken, Heart, Mouth, Nauseous, People

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Care, Denigrating, Insulting, May, Person, Speak

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt
Jerry Orbach era.

Law, Old, Order, People, Survive

Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.

Heart, Opening, Powerful, Real, True

To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

Caring, Fall, Fell, Like, Stupid

I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.

Embarrassed, Free, Rule, Think, Thinking, World

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.

Basically, Brother, Commercials, Lehman, Monday, Wall

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Feet, Long, Months, Putting, Thinking, Work

There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Five, Focus, People, Stars, Symmetrical, World

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

Believe, Extends, Laughing, Right, Turn, Years

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.

Angry, Comedy, Jealous, Watched, Watches

Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up. . . peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.

Caring, Girl, Growing, Growing Up, Pressure, Stuff

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

Attention, Paying, People, Thinking

Great people do things before they're ready. . . You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something.

Cares, People, Ready, Special, Things, Who Cares

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.

Car, Cars, Friends, Men, Year, Years

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

Asked, Dance, Stand, Wait, Waiting

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

Color, Dyed, Eyebrows, Hair

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Continue, Heart, Love, People

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