Amy Poehler Quotes

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Just relax and breathe through your ass.

Thank God for wisecracks.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I actually don't have a lot of faith in comedy.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. ... That can keep me awake for days.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat." Peabody mopped at her face. "Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why." With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. "I'll buy you a dozen, precious." "Cannolis, for God's sake.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!

The bowl dispels corroding cares.

If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

Sometimes I... No, I don't.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.