Timothee Chalamet

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 love the East Village.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”