Amy Poehler

Was promoted from featured player to full cast member on "Saturday Night Live" in the middle of her first year on the show (2001-2002). The only other SNL cast member to have this distinction is Eddie Murphy during the 1980-1981 season.

Has given impressions of Hillary Clinton , Katie Couric , Kelly Ripa , Madonna , Avril Lavigne , Sharon Osbourne , Julia Roberts and Tonya Harding on "Saturday Night Live" .

She succeeded Jimmy Fallon (who left after season 29) as Tina Fey s co-anchor of Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update sketch and making this the first all-female team beginning on the 30th season of NBCs "Saturday Night Live" .

In the 1990s, she appeared on "Late Night with Conan OBrien" playing Andy Richter s younger sister, who had a psychotic crush on Conan.

Has the rare distinction of being in two movies that opened on the same day in the United States: Mean Girls and Envy (April 30, 2004).

Her favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox.

Wife of Will Arnett , G.O.B. Bluth on "Arrested Development" . She has a recurring role on the series as G.O.B. Bluths "accidental" wife.

Is an alumnus of the famous Improv Olympic, along with actors Vince Vaughn , the late Chris Farley , Ossie Beck , Tina Fey , Mike Myers and Adam McKay.

Is only seven years older than Rachel McAdams , who plays her daughter in Mean Girls .

Has played sister to her real-life husband in Blades of Glory .

(April 2008) The week her movie Baby Mama debuted at #1 at the box-office, she announced that she was expecting her first child with Will Arnett.

Is a huge fan of the rap group Bone Thugs n Harmony.

Was four months pregnant with her son Abel when she completed filming on the second series of "Parks and Recreation" .

Returned to work two months after giving birth to her son Abel in order to resume presenting "Saturday Night Live" .

Her father has English, German, Irish and Portuguese ancestry, and her mother is of Irish descent.

Nominated in the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, "Parks and Recreation" , at the Womens Image Network (WIN) Awards 2012.

Best friends with Tina Fey and Seth Meyers.

Parents are William Grinstead and Eileen Frances Poehler.

Gave birth to her first child at age 37, a son Archibald William Emerson Poehler Arnett on October 25, 2008. Childs father is her now estranged husband, Will Arnett.

Returned to work four months after giving birth to her son Archibald in order to begin filming "Parks and Recreation" .

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 3, 2015.

Gave birth to her second child at age 38, a son Abel James Poehler Arnett on August 6, 2010. Childs father is her now estranged husband, Will Arnett.

Sister of Greg Poehler , star of "Welcome to Sweden" .

Attended and graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Received her Bachelors degree in media and communications from Boston College.

Is a staunch liberal Democrat.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and,then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who,points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when,people fall down.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about,loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying,what stuff will break when it lands.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not,about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge -,can be made better with humor.

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open,windows.

I just love bossy women. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all.

The streets and woods around my house were a perfect setting for fake,mischief. I would spend all afternoon pretending I had run away and had,to live on my own. I would bring Toll House cookies and a sweatshirt,and try to make a fire. I would sneak out side my house at dusk with a,pair binoculars and search the streets for murderers. I created,scenarios in my head that I always managed to escape from kidnap,fantasies where I would wriggle free from the ropes.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, ‘I made it!’ You will rarely feel done or complete or even successful. Most people I know struggle with that complicated soup of feeling slighted on one hand and like a total fraud on the other. Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else’s. It doesn’t matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. Success is filled with MSG.

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Dating in highschool was very different. Boys suddenly went up your shirt, girls were expected to give blow jobs and be sexy. You had to be hot, but not a slut. You had to be into sex, but never have it. Except when your boyfriend wanted it. If you had sex you had to keep it a secret, but also be very good at it. Except not too good, because this better be your first time.

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day. You think about the future and read about global warming. You realize how nice it feels to care about someone else more than yourself. And gradually, through this heart-heavy openness and these fresh eyes, you start to see the world a little more. Maybe you start to care a teeny tiny bit more about what happens to everyone in it.

I love saying “yes” and I love saying “please. ” Saying “yes” doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying “please” doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission. “Yes please” sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.

It’s a struggle for me to remain open," she admits. "To not shut down because I’m defensive or scared or maybe my ego is getting in the way. And the other side of that is just believing that I belong where I am and deserve to take up space. I fight constantly between those two things, between not apologizing for what I want and staying vulnerable and creatively supple and not thinking I know better than everyone else.

I often look to men to model behavior," she goes on after a pause. "Not because I want to squelch what’s feminine about me, but because sometimes I want a little more action, a little less feeling in my interactions. I’ve been doing this thing lately where I try to talk slower at meetings. I take a lot of meetings with women and we all talk really fast. But every guy talks so much slower. Maybe there’s a scientist who could tell me why, but I think men are just a little bit more comfortable taking up conversational real estate. So I’ve been seeing how slow I can tolerate talking. I’m doing it now. Let me tell you, it’s really hard for me.

Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism,Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again.

Doing comedy for a living is, in a lot of ways, like a pony and a camel trying to escape from the zoo. It’s a ridiculous endeavor and has a low probability of success, but most importantly, it is way easier if you’re with a friend.

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.

I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys that moonlight is a magic blanket and the stars above are campfires set by friendly aliens.

Look at this woman. This beauty. What an act of grace. What a gift she gave me. Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. Anastasia gave me a huge gift. That e-mail changed me. It rearranged my molecules. She has lived a life of struggle and decided not to pick up the armor. She teaches me about compassion. She makes her journey about open hearts. She is not ashamed. Thank you thank you thank you.

I do a weird thing when I am nervous where I tilt my head back like I am super confident. This is my attempt to fake it until I make it, or at the very least make it easier for someone to slit my throat.

I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be.

I have the Angela Jolie of vaginas.

I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily basis? Being slightly nervous means you care, and you’re alive, and you’re taking some kind of risk. Hooray for being nervous! A friend told me to substitute the word ‘excitement’ for ‘nervous’. That way you acknowledge the physical feelings without putting a negative spin on things. So to answer your question, sometimes I still get so excited about ‘Update’ that I want to throw up,I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

I made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there. Which I think is great progress. Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.

Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly.

You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as "hostages to fortune" and certainly my happiness depended on yours.

Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea.

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and queen of my prom. People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth and being chased in a fun way.

I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. .