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" 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

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Timothee Chalamet

Experience

Way

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did a year at Columbia, and I just kind of floundered. Maybe it wasn't the right place for me. "

" I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.' "

" 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. "

" Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal. "

" 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

Said

You

" I feel like I've been around performance my whole life. My mom and uncle had done plays. "

" I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor. "

" I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York. "

" I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground. "

" Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations. "

" I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense. "

" I love the East Village. "

" I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world. "

Timothee Chalamet

Kid

World

" I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years. "

Timothee Chalamet

Piano

Years

" There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.' "

" I'm not someone who frequents the gym, pretty much ever. "

" I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up. "

Timothee Chalamet

Time

Growing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely. "

Timothee Chalamet

Reality

Lot

" I've seen Hugh Jackman in a thousand Broadway shows. "