I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. Im fine with that. – Rainn Wilson
Dwight is a sad clown. Youve seen those paintings of sad clown. – Rainn Wilson
So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I dont live my life that way, and I dont feel thats what Bahaullah teaches. – Rainn Wilson
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I dont get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, Im just a screwball all day long. – Rainn Wilson
I like being a Bahai who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. – Rainn Wilson
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and youre not sure what they got famous for. – Rainn Wilson
Im about as big a star as the Bahai faith has got, which is pretty pathetic. – Rainn Wilson
I think were the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. Its 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
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
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes 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
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. – Rainn Wilson
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays. – Rainn Wilson
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor. – Rainn Wilson
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet. – Rainn Wilson
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
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
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
