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" Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires. "

Phyllis Smith

Trying

You

Present

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Kid

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions. "

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

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Phyllis Smith

Comedy

Drama

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" IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong 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. "