"Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged...." - Quote by Amy Poehler

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

“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend...Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. 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.”

“Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.”

“You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.”

“Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”

“All babies look like me.But then, I look like all babies.”

“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

“At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.”

“Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.”