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" 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. "
White
Thought
Office
" Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. "
Sad
You
Those
" I am all for controlling guns. "
Guns
Am
Controlling
" I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. "
Want
Art
Go
" I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well. "
Happy
Outsider
Great
" 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. "
Seattle
Living
Oil
" I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. "
Try
Acting
Class
" I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. "
Sad
Like
Know
" 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. "
Self
Kind
Rock
" 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. "
Voice
Walking
Mail
" I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing. "
Me
Transformation
Theatre
" I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range. "
Looking
Think
Expand
" 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. "
Two
Think
Try
" 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. "
Experience
Moments
Think
" I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes. "
Know
Always
How
" I was a total dork in high school. "
School
Total
Dork
" Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. "
Our
Anybody
Much
" Scotland is the Canada of England! "
Scotland
England
Canada
" 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. "
Better
Want
World
" 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions. "
Questions
Big
Friends
" 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. "
Man
Me
People
" The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace. "
Office
Great
Comedy
" There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine. "
Watch
Glasses
Okay
" 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. "
Debate
School
Team
" 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. "
Think
Leader
Know
" What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences. "
Show
American
Unique
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