Rainn Wilson

“So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.”

“We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.”

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

“Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.”

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

“I was a total dork in high school.”

“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.”