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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.

- Rainn Wilson

Comedy, About, Mostly, Angst

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

United, United Nations, Had, Marching

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

- Rainn Wilson

Interesting, Show, Which, Stylistically

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

- Rainn Wilson

Perfect, Over, Educational, Sponsors

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.

- Rainn Wilson

Show, I Think, Part, Joke

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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Wait, Guy, Works, Inappropriate

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

- Rainn Wilson

Important, Most, Bonds, Savor

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

Bad, Show, Haircuts, Polyester

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

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Weird, Like, Fine, Puppet

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

Decade, Needs, Very, Navel

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.

- Rainn Wilson

Doing, Very, Frustrated, Science-Fiction

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.

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Living, Big, Last, Science Fiction

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.

- Rainn Wilson

Education, Through, Uplift, Economic

Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

- Rainn Wilson

Dancing, Doing, Expression, Glee

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

- Rainn Wilson

Focus, Thinking, About, Pinball

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

- Rainn Wilson

Name, Wanted, Dad, Maria

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.

- Rainn Wilson

Death, Young, Big, OK

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

- Rainn Wilson

Waiting, Always, Whole, Working Actor

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

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Other, Guy, Became, Seattle

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

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Doing, Actress, Plays, Seattle

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

Love, Art, Read, Pretentious

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.

- Rainn Wilson

Through, Some, Telling, Heartfelt

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

Play, Very, Expanding, Eccentric

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

- Rainn Wilson

Tell, Always, Been, Jokes

I am all for controlling guns.

- Rainn Wilson

I Am, Guns, Am, Controlling

I was a total dork in high school.

- Rainn Wilson

School, High, Total, Dork

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

- Rainn Wilson

Believe, Without, Conceive, Compassionate

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

- Rainn Wilson

Doing, Some, TV, TV And Film

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

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Love, See, Some, Comedies

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

- Rainn Wilson

Celebrity, Big, TV, Annoying

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