Words matter. These are the best Pauline Chalamet Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I really have a love-hate relationship with New York. I will talk to New York and be like, ‘You are so hard on me. You are so difficult to be around. Why?’
By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had known growing up.
I definitely feel like Paris is my home.
I feel very much at home in Paris, but I’m attached to New York.
I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when I arrived at school at the difference between those who had money and those who didn’t.
I took a two-year break in college where I was just studying politics – I did political studies and became obsessed with comparative politics.
American universities are so expensive. My family couldn’t afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay my own way.
It’s after college that I started to tell myself that you have to persevere, and you have to sit in discomfort and let all the doubts and questions you have… they sometimes just have to sit around you, and you can’t answer them.
I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.
I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of – I don’t want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.
People who have money to spend are always okay with splitting the bill. People who don’t can’t think that way – they’ve consciously ordered less.
My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me realize that I wanted to be on stage doing that. So it was definitely through ballet, and then stage, and then theater and acting. And then I kind of made my way to film.
Well, I grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building.
I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I’m obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe. I was a dog walker. I was a babysitter. I was a tutor. Once I was asked to half-babysit, half-bartend.
I became a really good student at Bard and I fell in love with learning.
