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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. "

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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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences. "

" 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions. "

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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

Man

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. "

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

" I am all for controlling guns. "

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" 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. "

" I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing. "

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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. "

" I was a total dork in high school. "

" I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. "

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" 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. "

" Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. "