Zitat des Tages von Phyllis Smith:
I find myself dancing in the grocery store.
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.
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.
I believe in angels.
We all have these emotions, but you never really want to own up to sadness. You want to bury it.
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.
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'm just a normal person, believe me.
I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.
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.
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 don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.
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.
Even before 'The OA,' I was a very spiritual person.
I grew up when Disney was doing movies like Cinderella, and all the girls were princesses.
My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.
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.
Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.
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.
My love for dance was so strong.
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.
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.
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.
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.
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.