Rainn Wilson Quotes - Page 3

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• People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.

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  Dream, Play, People

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at.

  Rainn Wilson

  Needs, Culture, Sexist

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Children, Grief, Eight

  "Rainn Wilson Talks The End Of 'The Office,' Previews OWN 'SoulPancake' Special And Calls For Gun Control After Newtown Shooting". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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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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  Stars, Baha, Bigs

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• And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

  Rainn Wilson

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

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  Growing Up, Drama, Guy

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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

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  Painting, Dwight, Clown

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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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  Believe, Race, Suffering

  "Rainn Wilson: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

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  Swans, Dresses, Saws

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• 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.

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  Glasses, Work Out, Waiting

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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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  Love Is, Thinking, Two

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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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  Terrible, Sitcom, Know How

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• 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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Office, Style

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Self, Rock And Roll

  "Rainn Wilson Interview - THE ROCKER" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 19, 2008.

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

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Names, Poet

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

  Rainn Wilson

  Mom, Play, Actresses

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 17, 2010.

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• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  Rainn Wilson

  Stars, Character, World

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• Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

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  Father, Ask Me, Knows

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• I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting.

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  Life, Fall, Heart

  "Rainn Wilson will make you cringe with ‘Backstrom’" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I was a total dork in high school.

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  School, High School, Dork

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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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  Thinking, People, Range

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. 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.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Expression

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Character, Theatre, Transformation

  The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.

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  Photography, Block, Writing

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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