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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm generally pretty happy about life. "

" I do like comedy and drama. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My love for dance was so strong. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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