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.
— Phyllis Smith
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.
Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.
I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.
IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.
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.
God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.
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.
Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.