Quotes by Rainn Wilson

About Rainn Wilson:

Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor. He is best known for his Emmy Award-nominated role as the egomaniac Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain, Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and starred in the police procedural Backstrom.
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I was a total dork in high school.

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

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Scotland is the Canada of England!

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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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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

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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 remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

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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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If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your cre...

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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great...

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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 l...

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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 think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

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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.

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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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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 fluorescen...

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Author Bio

  • NameRainn Wilson
  • Descriptionactor
  • BornJanuary 20, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Writer; Blogger