Margaret Qualley

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre…

— Margaret Qualley

I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually…

— Margaret Qualley

I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

— Margaret Qualley

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it…

— Margaret Qualley

I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.

— Margaret Qualley

Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not…

— Margaret Qualley

I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up…

— Margaret Qualley

It's a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down…

— Margaret Qualley

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

— Margaret Qualley

I left home at 15 to go to the North Carolina School of the Arts.

— Margaret Qualley

I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is…

— Margaret Qualley

I lived alone, I didn't know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks,…

— Margaret Qualley

I like a bohemian floral dress, but then I'll throw on a leather jacket or a pair of lace-up boots to give…

— Margaret Qualley

I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a…

— Margaret Qualley

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

— Margaret Qualley

'The Leftovers' takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it's about how that changes society. Cults…

— Margaret Qualley

With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director…

— Margaret Qualley

I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it…

— Margaret Qualley

It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying…

— Margaret Qualley

I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work…

— Margaret Qualley

With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.

— Margaret Qualley

Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just sort of my mom to me. I never really recognized her as…

— Margaret Qualley

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

— Margaret Qualley

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own…

— Margaret Qualley

I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this…

— Margaret Qualley