Poehler: "I get a little itchy if I don't have some control."

Poehler: "As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

Poehler: "I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks."

Poehler: "Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'"

Poehler: "Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying."

Poehler: "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."

Poehler: "I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."

Poehler: "I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading."

Poehler: "Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world."

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."

Poehler: "I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks."

Poehler: "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."

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

Poehler: "Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value."

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

Poehler: "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."

Poehler: "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."