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" I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor. "
Timothee Chalamet
Child
Really
Sure
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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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Space
Creative
Always
" I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally. "
Timothee Chalamet
Find
Seeing
Preparation
" First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love. "
Timothee Chalamet
First
Name
Story
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Moment
My Life
Pressure
" Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds. "
Timothee Chalamet
Experience
Me
Way
" There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.' "
Timothee Chalamet
Audition
Around
Floating
" Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations. "
Timothee Chalamet
Tough
Perspective
Learn
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Me
Said
You
" Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial. "
Timothee Chalamet
Sometimes
Up
Speed
" I should become a peach brand ambassador. "
Timothee Chalamet
Brand
Ambassador
Become
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Work
American
Short
" We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow. "
Timothee Chalamet
Be Happy
Happy
Truck
" I'm not someone who frequents the gym, pretty much ever. "
Timothee Chalamet
Someone
Much
Ever
" There's the truth to every moment that you have to bring to every scene, but you have to understand the tonality of the film before you begin, which isn't something that's instinctual to me. "
Timothee Chalamet
Truth
You
Understand
" My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here. "
Timothee Chalamet
New York
Speak
Growing
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Shine
People
Think
" I did a year at Columbia, and I just kind of floundered. Maybe it wasn't the right place for me. "
Timothee Chalamet
Just
Right
Kind
" The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them. "
Timothee Chalamet
Me
Experience
Amazing
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Interesting
Know
Moments
" I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground. "
Timothee Chalamet
Ground
Independent
Feet
" I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places. "
Timothee Chalamet
Angry
Places
Me
" I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely. "
Timothee Chalamet
Reality
Close
Lot
" 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. "
Timothee Chalamet
Hands
Moment
Responsibility
" Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal. "
Timothee Chalamet
Communication
Per
Cent
" I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York. "
Timothee Chalamet
New York
Without
Actor
" I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays. "
Timothee Chalamet
Feel
Mom
Performance
" I've seen Hugh Jackman in a thousand Broadway shows. "
Timothee Chalamet
Hugh
Thousand
Shows
" My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end. "
Timothee Chalamet
Sister
Ballet
End
" I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing. "
Timothee Chalamet
Fun
Admit
Enough
" I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love. "
Timothee Chalamet
Nature
Life
Understanding