Jesse Plemons

Every role I take on, I try and bring my best and to be as honest as possible. I try not to repeat things I've done in the past. Which gets harder and harder.

I don't feel competitive toward other actors. I'm competitive with myself.

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.

I guess I would like to play some more extroverts.

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

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

Ade Palicki is a wonderful actress, so it was fun to work with her.

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

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 played lots of bullies when I was a kid.

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 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.'

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

'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.

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.