Phyllis Smith Quotes
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I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.
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The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.
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I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
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I believe in angels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm generally pretty happy about life.
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I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.
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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 healthy to see it in yourself and to ask, 'Hey, what's going on?'
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IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.
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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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If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.
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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.
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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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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.
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Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.
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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 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!'
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I know I'm not supposed to talk about God and stuff, but my spiritual life is very strong, and I really feel that a big part of whatever success I'm having is due to that as well.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.