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Rainn Wilson
American
Actor
Born:
Jan 20
,
1966
About
Great
Me
People
Think
You
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson
Sad
Clown
Puppet
Fine
Weird
Like
Know
Look
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 part of what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson
Funny
Great
Experience
Comedy
Joke
Think
Punch
Television
Born
Only
Great Part
Part
Lines
Human
Again
Mean
Human Experience
Really
Show
Moments
Awkward
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.
Rainn Wilson
Job
Wear
Guy
High-Paying
He
Boy
Very
Mature
May
Essentially
Appear
Suit
I would love to see some comedies about loser women.
Rainn Wilson
Love
Women
Would
See
Some
About
Comedies
Loser
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
Time
School
Debate
Band
Club
United Nations
Spend
High
Would
High School
Point
Pottery
Computer
Had
Go
Chess
Junior
Model
Junior High
Same
Quit
Just
Same Time
Nations
After
After-School
Which
Team
United
Marching
Marching Band
Actually
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
Positive
Life
Death
God
Soul
Heart
People
Try
Internet
Will
Free
Free Will
Big
Young
Thinking
Topics
OK
About
Something
Like
Talking
Wonder
Get
Human
Wanted
Young People
Really
Cool
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
Matter
Try
Think
He
Like
Goes
Any
Being
Where
Dwight
Wants
Loves
Harder
Desire
Number
Two
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
Rainn Wilson
Jokes
Tell
Know
Terrible
Always
How
Been
Lots
Sitcoms
Regular
Scotland is the Canada of England!
Rainn Wilson
Scotland
Canada
England
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
Great
Made
Leader
Think
Would
Born
Following
He
Know
Well
Dwight
Loves
Fascist
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
Makes
Audiences
Stylistically
American
American Audiences
Which
Interesting
Show
Unique
Captured
Awkward
I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
Rainn Wilson
Me
People
Looking
Think
Range
Definitely
Weirdos
Know
Expand
Playing
Creeps
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
Rainn Wilson
Character
Me
You
Theatre
Transformation
About
Transform
Started
Playing
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
Phones
Remember
Pay
East
East Village
Hoping
Constantly
Voice
Mail
Checking
Audition
Years
Unemployed
Walking
Being
Many
Village
Streets
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
Time
Family
Jobs
He
Support
Also
Wrote
Always
Doing
His
Very
Bunch
Artist
Wanted
Frustrated
Spare
Spare Time
Then
Worked
Hard
Painter
Dad
Novels
Ridiculous
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
Thought
Met
Brazil
White
Paper
Would
Identify
Bunch
Office
Loved
Really
Show
Who
Apparently
Company
Plays
'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Rainn Wilson
Website
Life
Big
Couple
Questions
Friends
Big Questions
Exploring
Founded
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
God
Believe
Universe
Way
Someone
Conceive
Without
Came
Overseeing
Did
Realize
Compassionate
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
Rainn Wilson
Happy
Women
Laugh
Has-Been
Oblige
Making
Continue
Been
Years
Body
Last
My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
Rainn Wilson
Waiting
Tables
Always
Just
Stop
Wanted
Working
Working Actor
Whole
Actor
Thing
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
Day
Morning
Focus
Long
Thinking
Machine
All Day
Minutes
About
Like
Pinball
Brain
Up
Get
Just
Being
Breathing
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
Charity
People
Believe
Think
Tricky
Because
Equate
Lot
Times
Times People
Thing
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.
Rainn Wilson
Education
Change
People
Believe
Society
Way
Spirit
Economic
Through
Uplift
Just
Base
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
Charity
About
More
Perfect
Knew
Over
Sponsors
Schools
Learned
Educational
Years
Realized
Planet
Really
Mona
Dad
Initiatives
Found
Foundation
Founder
Actually
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
Rainn Wilson
You
People
Meet
Sure
Got
Famous
Hollywood
I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
Rainn Wilson
Me
Wife
Child
Grounded
Lucky
Keep
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