Top 70 Rainn Wilson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.”

— Rainn Wilson

2. “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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3. “I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.”

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4. “The making of art is no different than prayer.”

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5. “Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.”

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6. “Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.”

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7. “I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.”

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8. “I’m about as big a star as the Baha’i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.”

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9. “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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10. “Teachers can make such a profound impact on our lives and should be honored as heroes, I believe. They’re working for so little money, under such difficult circumstances, usually for the love of the service to the children. Many of us owe who we are to certain teachers who appeared at just the right time, in the right place, and had just the right words to propel us on our journey.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you – and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.”

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13. “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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14. “This is one doodle that can’t be undid homeskillet.”

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15. “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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16. “A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he’s a 14-year-old boy.”

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17. “I’m a much better listener when I’m acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you’re acting with is saying and how they’re saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.”

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18. “Scotland is the Canada of England!”

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

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20. “Dwight is a sad clown. You’ve seen those paintings of sad clown.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “What other people think of you is none of your business; what you think of other people is ALL of your business.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “I’ve actually rented Bjork’s swan dress. I know that’s kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.”

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26. “Wanting to hurt, degrade, insult, or discriminate against a person or a group of people because of their sexual orientation is an abomination. I got a firsthand lesson in how deep and grotesque the hate and injustice toward my LGBT comrades run in our culture.”

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27. “I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I’d always wanted to try it.”

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28. “I’m lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.”

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29. “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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30. “My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I’m happy to continue to oblige.”

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31. “I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that’s crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.”

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34. “I was a total dork in high school.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “I would love to see some comedies about loser women.”

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37. “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. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that’s what I want to do till the day I die.”

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

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39. “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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40. “The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.”

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41. “You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you’re not sure what they got famous for.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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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44. “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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45. “I am all for controlling guns.”

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

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face...”

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

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