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Character
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Dance
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Birth
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Just One
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Mean
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Each One
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Nov 07, 2020

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

Drama
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Nov 07, 2020

I do like comedy and drama.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

My love for dance was so strong.

Dance
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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 Can
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

How
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Grateful
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Nov 07, 2020

I know how difficult it is to get one job, much less an entirely new career. I'm very blessed and grateful. It's like I'm a normal person with an extraordinary journey.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm generally pretty happy about life.

Sadness
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

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!'

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Believe
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Nov 07, 2020

I believe in angels.

Experience
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Hometown
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Find
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Nov 07, 2020

I find myself dancing in the grocery store.

Face
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Nov 07, 2020

I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Broader
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Friend
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Nov 07, 2020

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.'

Finished Product
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Better
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Nov 07, 2020

I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.

Memory
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm just a normal person, believe me.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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?'

More
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Nov 07, 2020

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

Maybe
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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

Impossible
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

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