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Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

Rainn Wilson

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Rainn Wilson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 20
Actor
Blogger
Character Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Television Actor
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Seattle
Washington
Rainn Dietrich Wilson
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Lessons
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A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.
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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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I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.
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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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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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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. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.
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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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The making of art is no different than prayer.
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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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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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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.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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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 think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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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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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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People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.
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