Top 45 Abby Lee Miller Quotes

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

I have good days and bad days.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

The rules are there for a reason.

I do not raise brats!

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I saw ‘Magic Mike,’ and I thought it was great.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I like to work.

I don’t want to hear the word ‘can’t.’

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

I try to be vegan… I really, really try. I don’t eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I’ve tried.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I didn’t have any children of my own.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

I create stars.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

I have an eye for detail.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‘talent’ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.