Quotes from Phyllis Smith

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

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.

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?'

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered.

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

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.

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

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

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 feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.

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.