I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.

Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail.

I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.

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

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