Margaret Qualley Quotes

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had been New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

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

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.

I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I joined the Bolshoi. He was a dancer with the Bolshoi, and we work very intensely together.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

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

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

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.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

I've been practicing ballet since I was three years old.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.