Rainn Quotes

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through ... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player." ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

I would love to see some comedies about loser women. ~ Rainn Wilson

Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are. ~ Rainn Wilson

What other people think of you is none of your business; what you think of other people is ALL of your business. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

What I learned as a young actor is that no matter how many times you've played a role, every single performance is an excavation, a rehearsal in front of an audience, where you play, dig, explore, and unleash your spontaneity to bring a fresh vitality to the character and an unpredictable magic to every moment. ~ Rainn Wilson

We get inundated with so many messages about belief, about what is true and what is not, from both our families and our culture, and it's crucial that every single one of us come to our own well-excavated understanding. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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

I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? ~ S.A. Tawks

The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred. ~ Rainn Wilson

These days, the teenage years are considered a time for socializing with a focus on dating and popularity. When relieved of the pressures of dating too young, I believe a young person is better able to focus on who they really are and find themselves in that crucial time when your personality is beginning to germinate. It's all that time reading, dreaming, and goofing off with fellow oddballs where our best selves get to evolve as teenagers. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing. ~ Rainn Wilson

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me. ~ Mindy Kaling

Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. ~ Rainn Wilson

Fortunately for me, I came out of ray misadventures with drugs and alcohol with my life, health, and soul pretty much intact. I know many who didn't. It's not harmless. I've lost many friends to that way of life. Some have died. Some have simply fried their hard drives for the rest of time or live in a perpetual chemical fog. I'm betting not one of them would say, It was worth it. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination. ~ S.A. Tawks

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show. ~ Rainn Wilson

Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes, I believe. They're working for so little money, under such difficult circumstances, usually for the love of the service to the children. Many of us owe who we are to certain teachers who appeared at just the right time, in the right place, and had just the right words to say to propel us on our journey. (ACTIVITY ALERT: Take this opportunity, partway through this ridiculous book, to reach out to a teacher who made an impact on you and THANK THEM. You'll be so glad you did. And so will they!) ~ Rainn Wilson

I was terrified, lost. Like most moments of intense personal tragedy, it was both heartbreaking and a little bit ridiculous. ~ Rainn Wilson

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor. ~ S.A. Tawks

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

Is Dwight really like that in real life?" to which I respond: "Oh, no, Rainn isn't like Dwight. Dwight is an angel next to Rainn. Rainn is a demon. ~ Mindy Kaling

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn? ~ S.A. Tawks

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face - accidentally, while we were discussing some ... equations - and he thought I was trying to brain him. So of course, he narked to Shoemaker, and apparently accidents are grounds for disciplinary action these days. ~ Isobel Irons

The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories. ~ Rainn Wilson

I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute. ~ Rainn Wilson

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

The making of art is no different than prayer. ~ Rainn Wilson

I am all for controlling guns. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn. ~ S.A. Tawks

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson

I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, it's about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend. ~ Rainn Wilson

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. ~ Rainn Wilson