Home / Quotes / Quote by Amy Poehler

Quote by Amy Poehler

“I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.”

Quote by Amy Poehler

Author

Amy Poehler, born on September 16, 1971, is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Leslie Knope in the television series 'Parks and Recreation', for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also served as a host on 'Saturday Night Live', winning an Emmy for her work there. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

People Shows Law Order Watches Comedy Bears Eras Episodes Relaxation Jerry Law And Order

Author:Amy Poehler

“I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Wonderful Cold Warm Broads Chicago Aggressive Passive Adjectives Windy Passive Aggressive

Author:Amy Poehler

“I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.”

People Giving Play Ice Birthday Cream Ice Cream Bangs Outfits Parlor Sundaes Kazoos

Author:Amy Poehler

“I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas Comedy Comedian What If Back And Forth Pitching

Author:Amy Poehler

“In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.”

Children House Curiosity Appearance Shops Bathroom Small Child

Book:Benchley beside himself

Source: Benchley beside himself

“If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.”

Ifs Writing Character Five Comedy Scene Six Down And Auditions Premises

Author:Amy Poehler

“Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.”

World Trying Left Forever Comedy Tvs Translate Cousin Improvisation Left Alone Retarded

Author:Amy Poehler

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.”

People Thinking Want I Can Stories Hands Poor Too Much Huge Filled Clean Eggs Assistants Trailers Pranks Cadbury

Author:Amy Poehler

“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”

Men Feels Streets Band Aging Impulse Sidewalk

Book:No Poems

Source: No Poems