Phyllis Smith

My love for dance was so strong.

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I'm just a normal person, believe me.

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I'm generally pretty happy about life.

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I believe in angels.

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I do like comedy and drama.

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The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of…

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It was only after I'd had some injuries that I basically retired from the performing side of show business and then began…

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Life is not all a bowl of cherries. There are days when you aren't going to feel up to par. And it's…

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When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting…

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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…

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I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and…

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

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

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

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I find myself dancing in the grocery store.

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

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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.

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

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

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