Phyllis Smith

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I'm just a normal person, believe me.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I believe in angels.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!'”

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

“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.”

“God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.”

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

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