Timothée Chalamet Quotes

Timothée Chalamet is one of the most electrifying young stars in Hollywood today. Since his breakout role in the 2017 Oscar-nominated film “Call Me by Your Name”, he has been captivating audiences with his incredible range and explosive performances. His rise has been nothing short of spectacular and his future in the entertainment industry looks equally as bright. 

Table of Contents:

1. Early Life and Family Background

2. Breakout Roles: Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird

3. Awards and Recognition

4. Upcoming Projects

5. Philanthropy and Political Activism

6. Timothée Chalamet Quotes

1. Early Life and Family Background

Timothée Chalamet was born on December 27, 1995, in Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and former Broadway dancer, and Marc Chalamet, an editor for UNICEF and former writer. Timothée grew up with his two sisters, Clémence and Pauline, in New York and England. He attended the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, where he competed in drama and gained valuable experience in performing arts.

Timothée also studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, a school that is highly regarded for its excellence in arts and music. He took drama classes and performed in plays that would later help serve as a stepping stone to the big screen. Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career, Chalamet attended Columbia University in 2014, studying creative writing and political science, but left after a year.

2. Breakout Roles: Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird

Timothée Chalamet’s breakout role came with his 2015 appearance in the critically acclaimed romantic drama film “Call Me by Your Name”, alongside Armie Hammer. The movie was a great success and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Thanks to his performances in the film, Chalamet gained recognition for acting and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. The next year he appeared in the film “Lady Bird”, another critical success that earned four Oscar nominations, and again starred in “Beautiful Boy” in 2018. The film gained a great deal of praise and earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in the science fiction film “Interstellar”, as well as in a production of Shakespeare’s “King Henry V” on stage.

3. Awards and Recognition

Since his breakout role in 2017, Timothée has been recognized with various awards and nominations. In addition to his Academy Award nomination for his performance in Call Me by Your Name, he also received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead in 2018 for his performance in the movie. In 2019, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beautiful Boy. The SAG Awards also recognized his work with a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

4. Upcoming Projects

Timothée Chalamet is currently on many projects that have the potential to shape his future in the entertainment industry. He is currently set to co-star in the upcoming HBO drama series The King, the adaptation of Shakespeare’s “King Henry V”, and will also be seen in Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi film starring Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, and Jason Momoa. He also stars in the Netflix period drama The French Dispatch, directed by Wes Anderson.

5. Philanthropy and Political Activism

Timothée Chalamet is known for his charitable work, which he has engaged in throughout his life. He has used his platform to support causes such as immigrants’ rights, environmentalism, and gun control. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chalamet donated proceeds from his film Little Women to the New York-based organization Lower East Side Girls Club. He is also a vocal supporter of the Obama Foundation and its various initiatives. As if that weren’t enough, Timothée Chalamet has also become increasingly active in politics, endorsed Bernie Sanders during the 2020 presidential election, and participated in voter registration drives as well.

Timothée Chalamet Quotes

“We’re only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.” —​ Timothée Chalamet​

“Nothing. Unemployment.” — Timothée Chalamet

“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.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“Pain is enough, you don’t have to beat yourself up because of pain. That’s a whole other layer that you don’t need.” —​ ​Timothée Chalamet​​

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

“My whole life I was Timmy and then as I got older, it seemed like Timmy was youthing me out, so it’s been Timothée since. I tried Timo and Tim, too. The real pronunciation is Timo-tay, but I can’t ask people to call me that; it just seems really pretentious.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“I went to LaGuardia, a performing arts high school. Without being ‘that guy that enjoyed high school too much,’ a trope I don’t want to fall into, it was a really amazing place to go to school. I got to work creatively— I’m an over-exuberant guy and I can go a mile a minute, so having a place to channel that energy was really great.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“The danger is you can end up focusing more on what’s going on off-camera than on-camera. You don’t want to be entertaining for the sake of being entertaining. The work should be the work. If it resonates, it’s going to resonate, and then people are naturally curious about how you got to that destination. It can’t be about how you’re getting to it.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“I think people who read are kind of secretive. They hide who they really are.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“I’m also really passionate about music. I want to pursue other things creatively, not so much music, but definitely writing and directing. I’m going to be very, very patient about that. My dream as an actor is to be economically self-sustainable and what this year has been is beyond that now. I’m getting a creative license of sorts.” — Timothée 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.” — Timothée 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.” —​ Timothée 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.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“The first lesson about love would be, when you love, love wholly, love unabashedly; give yourself.” —​ Timothée Chalamet​​

“I think poison for young people publicly, in social settings or in life in general, is self-assumption, and I think that’s what makes me nervous on talk shows.” — Timothée Chalamet

“I don’t know what chapter I’m on. I only know where I am.” — Timothée Chalamet

“I had this feeling I couldn’t not act and yet to get there I really needed teachers, and one teacher, in particular, to make me comfortable with failing. To be bad and get over it—that opened the floodgates.” —​ ​Timothée 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.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“Is it better to speak or to die?” —​ Timothée Chalamet​

“I am still trying to separate my personal and my professional life. My old drama teacher gave me that advice. He told me to protect my emotions and to keep my private life private as much as I can.” —​ ​Timothée Chalamet​

“Please no peach jokes.” —​ Timothée Chalamet​

“Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine.” — Timothée Chalamet​

“Ninety-eight percent of all human communication is non-verbal.” — Timothée Chalamet​ ​

“I wouldn’t be the actor I am without New York.” —​ Timothée Chalamet​

“I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.” —​ Timothée Chalamet​​

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