Amy Poehler Quotes

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

I really want to do comedy.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I clock on, I tell jokes, I clock off again.

Comedy is a lot of fun if you have costars who can help you perform better.