Top 35 Jesse Plemons Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I didn’t really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Right after ‘Friday Night Lights’ ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

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 played lots of bullies when I was a kid.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I’d say, in terms of career and something that I really enjoy and feel lucky to be able to do.

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

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

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It was a blast.

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.

‘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.

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

I will say, I’m a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

I grew up in a tiny town in Texas, so I understood the world of high school football.

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

I don’t think I’m a slacker, but I don’t have aspirations to, like, conquer Hollywood. Or the world. Or anything.

People can rationalize in funny ways to hold onto their dreams and needs.

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

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 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.

In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense – I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.

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

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.

I deleted my Facebook account when I was 19 because it didn’t bring out good qualities in me. I figured, ‘Well my mom’s got a Facebook. If people want to find me, they can go through her.’

Awards shows… I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

I guess I would like to play some more extroverts.

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

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.