Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler: I want to go on the record and say I have never urinated in public. But the night is still young.

Amy Poehler: (in reference to "Parks and Recreation") We don't want to overreach, but every single episode will have life, death, happiness, sadness, anger, rebirth, redemption and a very clear conclusion. Again, I don't want to overreach.

Amy: If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Amy: Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Amy: America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Amy: Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Amy: (on kids, due to her pregnancy) I'm great with kids. I think I'm still a big giant kid. I understand them and usually we're the same size. I think I understand the way they look up at the world. I get it.

Amy: I've never watched old repeats of Saturday Night Live because I can't bear it. I mean reruns of older seasons of stuff, because if the scene's funny I'm jealous that I didn't think of it. It's too intimidating. I just can't compare myself. I love it so much I can't even watch it.

Amy (on her life outside her work): All we do is watch The Wire and go out to dinner with our friends. I wish I could tell you that we had these crazy comedy competitions of hilariousness, but at the end of the day, all I want is a good cry and an hourlong drama.

Amy (referring to her film, "Blades of Glory"): Every time that we'd do something funny (Will) Ferrell would accidentally like hit the camera or lose the film. Hair in the gate, all that crap. We did get to do a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff that I remember being genius, but we got to play around a lot. We improvised a lot of stuff too so that was fun.

Amy (referring to her film "Blades of Glory"): It was really fun to play the bad guy because as a woman sometimes you don't get to do that. You have to be nice.

Amy: I had the best time making Mean Girls, that was a fun bunch of ladies. I was given a lot of creative freedom as well, to just go with what felt funny, and I believe that was a huge part of the movie's flow.

Amy: There's a couple of enemies to improv, and one of them is editing; when you edit on TV it makes it seem like it's not really improv.

Amy: 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.

Amy: 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.