Rainn Wilson Quotes
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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.
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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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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 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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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 am all for controlling guns.
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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'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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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 was a total dork in high school.
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.