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" 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. "

Phyllis Smith

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Phyllis Smith

Home

Kid

" 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. "

" 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. "

Phyllis Smith

Mother

Mom

" I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Phyllis Smith

Movies

Cinderella

" I want to do the best and be the best at what I do. "

Phyllis Smith

Best

Want

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe in angels. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm generally pretty happy about life. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

Phyllis Smith

Injuries

Business

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself. "

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