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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it. "

" Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower. "

" I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it. "

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

" I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory. "

" Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive. "

" I grew up when Disney was doing movies like Cinderella, and all the girls were princesses. "

" 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. "

" When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid. "

" Hopefully, 'Inside Out' will have the longevity that those older movies have, and many years down the line, people will be able to watch it and find some kinship with it. "

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

" My love for dance was so strong. "

" 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 don't really think about being pigeonholed so much. "

" The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life. "

" If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out. "

" I believe in angels. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I know how difficult it is to get one job, much less an entirely new career. I'm very blessed and grateful. It's like I'm a normal person with an extraordinary journey. "

" 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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" Life is not all a bowl of cherries. There are days when you aren't going to feel up to par. And it's healthy to see it in yourself and to ask, 'Hey, what's going on?' "

" 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!' "