Rainn Wilson's Quotes

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

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 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.

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.

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.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

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.

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.

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.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

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.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

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.

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.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

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

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

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.

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.

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

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

I am all for controlling guns.

I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

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.

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

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

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

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

I was a total dork in high school.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

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

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

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

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

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

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

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