I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges. Rainn Wilson More Quotes by Rainn Wilson More Quotes From Rainn Wilson 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 awkwardmeanthinking 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 jobsboysyears 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. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die. Rainn Wilson crazylove-ischaracter The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars. Rainn Wilson dollarscamerasadd 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 daddifferentfishing 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 museumsbookart I would love to see some comedies about loser women. Rainn Wilson comedyloser 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 ask-meknowsfather I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did. Rainn Wilson grewcomedygrew-up I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. Rainn Wilson wifeluckychildren 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 styleplayergames [Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil, like a light saber. Technology is supposed to bring people together, streamline things and make life easier and in a lot of ways it does that. However, technology can also disconnect you from other people and break down the social network, the real social network of family and friends and interpersonal communication, and isolate people, make them feel alone, make them feel small. So it's a tool that needs to be used correctly. Rainn Wilson communicationtechnologyreal 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 successfulviewspeople I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. Rainn Wilson kingsagewant 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 tv-showsbahacharacter I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. Rainn Wilson classyearsschool 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 awkwarduniqueinteresting 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 givinglaughingpeople 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 believepeoplethinking We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at. Rainn Wilson sexistcultureneeds
