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

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

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" I'm just a normal person, believe me. "

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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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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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. "

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

" I'm generally pretty happy about life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "