80+ Abby Lee Miller Quotes: Dance, Life, & Success

I have goals.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing

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

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

We have a parent that’s out of control. She does not have any weapons. Just her mouth.

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 have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

You have to want it 110 percent. You have to eat, sleep, and breathe your passion, and fight for perfection every step of the way.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‘Wow, you’ve done a great job.’

Why she was crying, I don’t know. Kids should cry when their arm is broken and it’s hanging off or somebody died.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump, a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I always tell my students that I dream bigger for them than I do for myself, and that’s the truth.

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

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.

Maddie Ziegler is like a breath of fresh air, you’re like the stuff we spray in the bathroom.

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

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.

I told her that her daughter looked like road kill.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Suck it up. I don’t want to see those tears.

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

Your daughter is holding a national title and I will take it away in a minute.

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

Every week we put the trash. Out! Go!

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I always tell my students that I dream bigger for them than I do for myself, and that’s the truth.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I don’t wake up amazing. It takes me hours to get this way.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I have good days and bad days.

Second is the first to lose.

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

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

I don’t care what’s going on. Get your butt down to this studio.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump, a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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.

Let me know when she’s on Broadway. I’ll get tickets.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

That fall, when everyone was doing back-to-school shopping, I couldn’t have cared less about clothes, and classes, and football games. I was totally consumed with going back to dancing school and my plans for the future.

My success rate speaks for itself.

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 made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

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.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

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.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.