Pauline Chalamet

I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe.…

— Pauline Chalamet

Paris is great and you can live there, but if you're interested in things going faster, you have to come to the…

— Pauline Chalamet

My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me…

— Pauline Chalamet

I definitely feel like Paris is my home.

— Pauline Chalamet

People who have money to spend are always okay with splitting the bill. People who don't can't think that way - they've…

— Pauline Chalamet

By the time I graduated from high school, though, I was in a bit of a rebellious phase towards everything I had…

— Pauline Chalamet

I didn't party in college. I really, really worked.

— Pauline Chalamet

I double-majored in Political Studies and Theatre & Performance.

— Pauline Chalamet

I became a really good student at Bard and I fell in love with learning.

— Pauline Chalamet

I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really…

— Pauline Chalamet

I really have a love-hate relationship with New York. I will talk to New York and be like, 'You are so hard…

— Pauline Chalamet

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

— Pauline Chalamet

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

— Pauline Chalamet

Well, I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building.

— Pauline Chalamet

I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when…

— Pauline Chalamet

I moved to Paris and I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I moved in with a friend who…

— Pauline Chalamet

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to…

— Pauline Chalamet

I think college starts too early. You should go straight into the workforce at 18 and start getting the hang of life first.

— Pauline Chalamet

I enjoy writing and directing a lot. For a long time, I was dabbling in many different things. I've been thinking of…

— Pauline Chalamet

I feel very much at home in Paris, but I'm attached to New York.

— Pauline Chalamet

I took a two-year break in college where I was just studying politics - I did political studies and became obsessed with…

— Pauline Chalamet

American universities are so expensive. My family couldn't afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay…

— Pauline Chalamet

It's after college that I started to tell myself that you have to persevere, and you have to sit in discomfort and…

— Pauline Chalamet