Top 78 Rainn Wilson Quotes
#1. 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
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#2. There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
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#3. I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
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#4. My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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#5. The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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#6. I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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#7. I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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#8. The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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#9. Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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#10. I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.
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#11. I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.
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#12. I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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#13. What other people think of you is none of your business; what you think of other people is ALL of your business.
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#14. My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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#15. Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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#16. I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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#17. One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.
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#19. The making of art is no different than prayer.
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#20. Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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#21. I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.
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#22. The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.
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#23. Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.
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#24. A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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#25. My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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#26. Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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#27. A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.
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#28. I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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#29. I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
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#30. I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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#31. There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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#32. I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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#33. Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.
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#34. I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.
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#35. So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
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#36. I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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#37. My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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#38. Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.
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#40. My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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#41. What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
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#42. You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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#43. We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it's crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding.
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#44. Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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#45. I was terrified, lost. Like most moments of intense personal tragedy, it was both heartbreaking and a little bit ridiculous.
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#46. I would love to see some comedies about loser women.
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#47. Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.
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#48. And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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#49. I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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#50. Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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#51. Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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#52. I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.
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#53. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die.
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#54. I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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#55. I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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#56. I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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#57. Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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#58. In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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#59. I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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#60. My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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#61. Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.
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#62. Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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#63. Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.
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#64. I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.
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#65. The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
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#66. And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.
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#67. I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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#68. I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.
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#70. Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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#71. Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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#72. We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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#73. I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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#74. I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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#75. The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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#76. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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#77. I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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#78. The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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