Quotes from Timothee Chalamet

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.

I should become a peach brand ambassador.

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

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

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.

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.

I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.

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.

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

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

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

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

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

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've always felt like there was less creative space on sets with guardians. I just felt independent at a young age.

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.

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.