Rainn Wilson Quotes
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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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.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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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.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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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.
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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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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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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.
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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.
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I would love to see some comedies about loser women.