“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.”

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

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

“I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”