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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.' "

Phyllis Smith

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

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do like comedy and drama. "

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

" 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'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. "

" My love for dance was so strong. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the first places I was ever recognized after 'The Office' came out was at Target in Los Angeles. Someone came up to me, and she said, 'Are you Phyllis from 'The Office?'' We were in different aisles, but she had recognized my voice. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" I'm generally pretty happy about life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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