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Rainn Wilson Biography

Rainn Dietrich Wilson (/ˈreɪn ˈdiːtrɪk/; born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, businessman, and producer. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office.

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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.

Artist, Beings, Creative, Creativity, Everyone

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.

Gazing, Kick, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Self, Starts

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

Clipped, Exactly, Kind, Noir, Short, Squad

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

Believe, Handouts, People, Thinking, Tricky

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

Addressed, Culture, Live, Racist

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

Kings, Age, Want, Keel, King

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.

Children, Eight, Felt, Grief, Mind, Wrap

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

Actor, Actors, Character, Show, Tv Shows

I am all for controlling guns.

Controlling, Gun, Guns

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.

Became, Drama, Geek, Good, Growing Up, Guy

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

People, Range, Think, Thinking

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.

Awkward, Jokeless, Lines, Mean, Setups, Thinking

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.

Juniors, Nations, School, Team

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

Lessons, Sometimes, Failing, Fail, Everything, Lesson

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.

Believe, Block, Blocks, Impossible, Journey, Think

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.

America, Day, Light, Men, Polyester, Worst

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.

Artist, Humanity, Play, Think, Thinking

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Jokes, Know How, Lots, Sitcom, Terrible

I was a total dork in high school.

Dork, High, High School, School

I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.

Keys, Life, Listening, Moment, Real

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