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" I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it. "
Phyllis Smith
Teacher
Bad
Shooting
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" Even before 'The OA,' I was a very spiritual person. "
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" I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from. "
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" I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.' "
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" We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe in angels. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much. "
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" 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. "
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" I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way. "
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" When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years. "
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Dancing
Hurt
" My love for dance was so strong. "
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Dance
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Love
" I find myself dancing in the grocery store. "
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" I'm just a normal person, believe me. "
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" I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years. "
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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. "
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" My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots. "
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Roots
St. Louis
Family
" I've just tried to be a responsible person and pay my bills. But whatever it is I do, I want to do the best I can. "
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Want
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" 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. "
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" When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid. "
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" I'm generally pretty happy about life. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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Dress
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" Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower. "
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" Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s. "
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