"Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown."
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"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."
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"The making of art is no different than prayer."
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"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings."
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"I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it."
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"Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail."
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"I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it."
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"This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet."
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"And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education."
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"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."
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"I think God has a tremendous sense of humor."
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"My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige."
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"Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up."
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"I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend."
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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 was a total dork in high school."
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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."
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