62 Notable Rainn Wilson Quotes
I was terrified, lost. Like most moments of intense personal tragedy, it was both heartbreaking and a little bit ridiculous.
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Scotland is the Canada of England!
What other people think of you is none of your business; what you think of other people is ALL of your business.
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.
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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.
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.
The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
I would love to see some comedies about loser women.
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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.
I was a total dork in high school.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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.
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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.
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.
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.
My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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.
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.
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.
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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.
