“The thing you can’t google about Nick yet is that he is the best person to work with, and he is one of the kindest. Usually you can’t find the good things about people on the internet but if you could that would certainly be his headline.” (x)

“I think films are kind of catching up in a way to where television has been for a long time. Television is still, in my opinion, the best place for female characters,” she said. “I’m so down with TV right now. Everything I watch is on TV and I love everything on TV and I think most TV shows are better than movies—there, I said it.” Poehler’s favorites? “Mad Men,” “Hoarders,” and “Breaking Bad.”  Ariel Levy described Leslie Knope, the earnest small-town politician Poehler plays on “Parks and Recreation,” as her “favorite feminist on TV.” Poehler, too, identifies with Leslie’s can-do spirit. “I don’t think believing one person can make a difference, or change is going to come, means that you’re silly or that you’re uninformed,” she said. There is, however, at least one crucial difference between Poehler and her onscreen counterpart: “She loves to go camping, and I do not.” | Amy Poehler at the 2011 New Yorker Festival

I’m Ron Swanson and you’re Leslie Fucking Knope.

RON: Let’s split up. I do it better alone.
LESLIE: Yeah you do! See? Just one of the guys.

beauregarde:

Leslie: Why would anyone ever eat anything besides breakfast food?
Ron: People are idiots, Leslie

THEMED PARTY: CHALLENGE 18 - food

You’re a real stand-up guy.

#mayyyybe my favourite dynamic on the show