Rainn Wilson Quotes - Page 2

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• When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Fishing, Different

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

  Rainn Wilson

  Wife, Different, Filters

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

  Rainn Wilson

  Culture, Racist

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I am all for controlling guns.

  Rainn Wilson

  Gun

  "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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• 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

  Men, Light, America

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• 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

  People, Heartfelt, Stories

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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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 part of what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Mean, Thinking, Awkward

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• 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

  Art, Book, Museums

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• The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

  Rainn Wilson

  Cameras, Dollars, Add

  FaceBook post by Rainn Wilson from Jul 12, 2010

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• I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

  Rainn Wilson

  Comedy, Loser

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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 creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

  Rainn Wilson

  Expression, Shining, Creative

  "Big Think Interview With Rainn Wilson". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Team, School, Chess

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• I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dark, Views, People

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• 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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Father, Ask Me, Knows

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• I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Rough Edges, Misfits

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.

  Rainn Wilson

  Comedy, Grew Up, Grew

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Player, Games, Style

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

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

  Rainn Wilson

  Children, Wife, Lucky

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• I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Kings, Age, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Successful, Views, People

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

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

  Rainn Wilson

  School, Years, Class

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

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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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Unique, Interesting, Awkward

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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.

  Rainn Wilson

  Laughing, People, Giving

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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

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  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Rainn Wilson: I believe in education, not handouts". Interview with Sonya Hamasaki, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

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• (In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

  Rainn Wilson

  Squad, Noir, Kind

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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