Quotes by Rainn Wilson

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.

The greatest thing ever in the history of the world and of all of human endeavor from time immemorial is stories.

Fortunately for me, I came out of ray misadventures with drugs and alcohol with my life, health, and soul pretty much intact. I know many who didnt. Its not harmless. Ive lost many friends to that way of life. Some have died. Some have simply fried their hard drives for the rest of time or live in a perpetual chemical fog. Im betting not one of them would say, It was worth it.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

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.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and youre not sure what they got famous for.

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

Dwight is a sad clown. Youve seen those paintings of sad clown.

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