Rainn Wilson Quotes

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

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• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Money
  • Me
  • Shopping

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!

  

  Kajol
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Road

• I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Religious

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

  

  Halsey
  • Direction
  • Fan
  • Horizon

• I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Husband

• The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hard
  • Wrestling
  • Passions

• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
  • Me
  • Wrong

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Bad
  • You
  • Name

• I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Bowie

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and tolerance. This is true across every boundary, across cultural boundaries, across socioeconomic, it's a great leveler in terms of unifying our world.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Education
  • Communication
  • Skills

• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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