Quotes from Rainn Wilson

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

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.

The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

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.

I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

I am all for controlling guns.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

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.

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

I was a total dork in high school.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

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.

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.

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

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

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

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.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

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

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

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. 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.