Jesse Plemons

“With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.”

“I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.”

“I'm always open to anything. I haven't been that selective, I've just been fortunate to get projects I'm excited about. It's a little bizarre being a part of things that you really, really enjoy.”

“My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.”

“The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.”

“Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.”

“Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.”

“I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.”

“I did a Coca-Cola commercial when I was about two and a half years old, and then me and my family were extras in a bunch of Westerns. I loved dressing up and stepping into this imaginary world, and it was fun to get outside of my tiny little town with a bunch of movie weirdos.”

“It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.”

“I get a little freaked out when I'm around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-haired friends, and when a bunch of us get together, I feel like there's going to be a fight that breaks out or something.”

“'Lonesome Dove' was the movie. I watched that over and over and over again, and I know every line. It was one that I loved as a kid for all the horses and characters that went over my head, but then the older I got, I realized how amazing it was on so many other different levels - Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones' relationship.”

“I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.”

“It seems to work out that following anything you do, you are pretty much approached with versions of the last thing people saw you in.”

“There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.”

“'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.”

“'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.”

“I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.”

“I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.”

“I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.”