Timothee Chalamet Quotes

Timothee Chalamet

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 27, 1995

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

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

Timothee Chalamet

We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

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

I should become a peach brand ambassador.

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

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

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

Timothee Chalamet

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

Timothee Chalamet

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

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

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