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" Even before 'The OA,' I was a very spiritual person. "

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" I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that. "

" Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires. "

" One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character. "

" If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows. "

" I'm generally pretty happy about life. "

" Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic. "

" It was only after I'd had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began working in casting. I did that for 19 years or so before a friend of mine decided to cast me as Phyllis Lapin-Vance on 'The Office.' "

" Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing. "

" My love for dance was so strong. "

" For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line. "

" I had one young man tell me he wished I was his mom. Another young woman told me that every time she watched 'The Office,' I reminded her of her mother, who had just passed away a year ago, and that every time she saw me she felt as if she had a piece of her mom still with her. "

" I know I'm not supposed to talk about God and stuff, but my spiritual life is very strong, and I really feel that a big part of whatever success I'm having is due to that as well. "

" I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years. "

" In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another. "

" You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling. "

" As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people. "

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" When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad. "

" When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it. "

" I didn't want Sadness to be just one note. "

" We all have these emotions, but you never really want to own up to sadness. You want to bury it. "

" God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store. "

" I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it. "

" I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from. "

" I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis. "

" My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots. "

" We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions. "

" I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts. "

" Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments. "

" When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!' "

" I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life. "