Timothee Chalamet

Actor

1995-12-27

Timothée Chalamet is an American and French actor known for leading roles in both independent and major studio films. He has received multiple major award nominations for performances in films including Call Me by Your Name and Dune.

Quotes by Timothee Chalamet

I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.
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When I try to appreciate something, it feels like my hands are around the moment, trying to squeeze it. It's when you really release yourself of the responsibility to be enjoying things that you actually do.
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I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
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My favorite kind of acting scenes, or at least where I think people shine the brightest, are odes to Meisner technique scenes where people are face-to-face, and it's almost like a repetition exercise.
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We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.
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I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.
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I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays.
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Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.
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I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors feel pressure to bring a pop to every scene; as the roles get bigger, I'm finding you can add layers and do less scene-to-scene.
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I love the East Village.
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On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately.
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Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.
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These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.
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I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York.
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I've always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.
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