Quotes from Jesse Plemons

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

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 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.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

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

'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 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 going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I'll just start going nuts on Twitter.

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

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.

I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.