Rainn Wilson Quotes

"I think God has a tremendous sense of humor."

"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that."

"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."

"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."

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

"Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show."

"Scotland is the Canada of England!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

"I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range."

"I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing."

"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."

"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."

"I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it."

"'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions."

"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."