Rainn Wilson

Rainn Wilson

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Rainn Wilson is an American actor and writer, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on 'The Office', where he explored themes of authenticity and creativity.

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Born
January 20, 1966
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"I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute."

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"If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken."

Thinking Broken President
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"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. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way."

Dream Jobs Dad
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"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."

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"When I was a little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it."

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

Character Tv Shows Baha
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"You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property."

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"Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do."

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"I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did."

Comedy Grew Up Grew
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"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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"I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player.""

Player Games Style
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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."

Mean Thinking Awkward
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"I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly."

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

Believe Thinking People
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"I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine."

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"I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way."

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

Thinking People Range
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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."

Love Is Thinking Two
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"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."

Rocks Self Rock And Roll
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