Margaret Qualley Quotes

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

I was a ballerina, and everything I did in dance was delicate, pretty.

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

I very much like dance and dancers.

I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.