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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Phyllis Smith

Work

Stand

Process

" 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 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. "

" 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!' "

" I do like comedy and drama. "

Phyllis Smith

Comedy

Drama

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm generally pretty happy about 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

" 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

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

" I find myself dancing in the grocery store. "

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

Phyllis Smith

Home

Kid

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "