Top 20 Margaret Qualley Quotes

I lived alone, I didn’t know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks, and I realized I hadn’t said anything. I was laying in bed, and I was like, ‘Hello?’ I just talked to hear my own voice. And it was such a strange feeling.

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

I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It’s ridiculous. I’ll call her and be like, ‘I saw this dress, can I get it?’ And she’ll say, ‘Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.’

With ‘The Leftovers,’ I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s probably a good sign.’

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I went to the Professional Children’s School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

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

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

I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

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 that way. It’s very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff.

I like a bohemian floral dress, but then I’ll throw on a leather jacket or a pair of lace-up boots to give it an edge. My mom is always trying to get me to wear really sweet clothes. Something pink. But that’s not really my look.

I don’t really know what I’m doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn’t, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just sort of my mom to me. I never really recognized her as a famous actress. I’m always thrilled when she’s cleaning out her closet. Last time, I got a pair of boots that she bought in Paris 20 years ago. I have completely worn them out.

I was used to having a job – ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.

It’s a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down everything you eat and use a little roller that pinches you to measure the fat all over your body. Then, every semester, you get a letter saying either you’re too thin, or you’re OK, or you’re overweight.

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

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

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