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I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Costumes Day Dressing Every Every Day Favorite Halloween Hate Holiday Least Like Makeup Up Wear Wigs

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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.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Actor Also Audition Commercial Funny Genius Go Improvise Just Know Line Say Take Think Tide You

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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 Poehler

Topics: Almost Alone Always Been Best Comedy Cousin Forever Get Improvisation Just Left Like Live Retarded Stand-Up Translate Trying Tv World

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In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Britney Britney Spears Cares Day Fan Her Oh Posting Recent Says Spears Valentine Valentine's Day Website Who Who Cares

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It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Art Bad Best Communism Eventually Everybody Gets Good How Matter Our People Profession Should Strive Try Working

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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Before Class Class Clown Clown Fun Good Making Men Other People Really Said School Themselves Women Women Are You

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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Accept Construction Doing Doing Good Give Good Out People President Really Roles Step Talented Talented People Than Worker You Yourself

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Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: About Actually Always Character Class Come Doing Find Inspired Know Lady Monologues Old Old Lady People Random Some Somebody Something Sometimes Then Useful You

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I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Always Daughter Important Liked School Teachers Very

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As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

~Amy Poehler

Topics: Actor Any Certainly Discover Fat Moment People Stupid Think Time Ugly Who You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: September 16th, 1971

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