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"50 Rainn Wilson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 January 1966 | Actor | Comedian | Writer |
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Clown Paintings Sad Seen
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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.

Any Being Desire Goes
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Regular Sitcoms Terrible Jokes
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

Anybody Ever Much Our
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Scotland is the Canada of England!

Canada England Scotland The
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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.

All America Bad Challenge
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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.

Again Calculator Fine Glasses
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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.

Born Fascist Following Great
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
American Audiences Awkward Captured
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

Creeps Definitely Expand Know
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
About Character Me Playing
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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.

About Affinity Am Characters
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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.

Audition Being Checking Constantly
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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.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
Acting Always Class High
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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.

Believe Grow Here Higher
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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.

About American Angst Being
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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.

Apparently Brazil Bunch Company
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Big Couple Exploring Founded
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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.

Around Child Felt Grief
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I am all for controlling guns
Am Controlling Guns
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

Believe Came Compassionate Conceive
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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.

Affect Better Compassionate Conscious
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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.

About Feel Life Live
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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.

Being Faculties Gives God
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
Art Books Go Like
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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.

Back Before Doing Film
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

Bonds Create Household Important
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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.

Both Cast Dancing Doing
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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.

Decade Every Gazing Get
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
Been Body Continue Happy
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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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.

Absolutely Always Am Ask
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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.

About Connect Each Housewives
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Dance Deaf Even Kind
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Definitely Ralph Would
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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.

About All Day Being Brain
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Because Believe Charity Equate
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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.

Base Believe Change Economic
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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.

About Actually Charity Dad
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

After Dad Maria Me
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I was a total dork in high school.

Dork High School Total
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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.

Appear Boy Essentially Guy
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Famous Got Hollywood Meet
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

Child Grounded Keep Lucky
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Clown Fine Know Like
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

God Humor Sense Think
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

Biggest Characters Essentially Movie
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I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

About Comedies Loser Love
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

About Big Faith Got
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Rainn Wilson Quotes & Sayings