I grew up when Disney was doing movies like Cinderella, and all the girls were princesses. Phyllis Smith More Quotes by Phyllis Smith More Quotes From Phyllis Smith 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. Phyllis Smith my-life grateful thankful life 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. Phyllis Smith doing know nice creative 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. Phyllis Smith down story character people 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. Phyllis Smith performance bad good you For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line. Phyllis Smith me truth want character