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" I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes. "
Rainn Wilson
Know
Always
How
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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. "
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Experience
Moments
Think
" 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. "
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Better
Want
World
" What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences. "
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Show
American
Unique
" Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show. "
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Our
Anybody
Much
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Seattle
Living
Oil
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Watch
Glasses
Okay
" Scotland is the Canada of England! "
Rainn Wilson
Scotland
England
Canada
" I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range. "
Rainn Wilson
Looking
Think
Expand
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Voice
Walking
Mail
" I was a total dork in high school. "
Rainn Wilson
School
Total
Dork
" I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. "
Rainn Wilson
Sad
Like
Know
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Debate
School
Team
" 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
Me
People
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Happy
Outsider
Great
" 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
Want
Art
Go
" 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions. "
Rainn Wilson
Questions
Big
Friends
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Two
Think
Try
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Self
Kind
Rock
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Think
Leader
Know
" I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing. "
Rainn Wilson
Me
Transformation
Theatre
" I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. "
Rainn Wilson
Try
Acting
Class
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
White
Thought
Office
" Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. "
Rainn Wilson
Sad
You
Those
" 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. "
Rainn Wilson
Office
Great
Comedy