Abby Lee Miller

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

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

What I'm denying is that I'm this cutthroat financier.

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

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

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

I have an eye for detail.

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

I don't want a brat on my team.

I have good days and bad days.

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

I've been invited to do 'Dancing With the Stars' three times, but Lifetime said no.

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

I do not raise brats!

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.

If you want someone to say, 'She's so sweet, and she's so cute, and, honey, point your foot,' that's not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that's what you want to hear.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

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

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

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.

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

The rules are there for a reason.

I'm not this horrible, evil person.

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

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 want to be an executive producer.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of 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.

I make decisions all day, so it's nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, 'Let me order.' Other women would be offended by that, but I'm like, 'Good. Because I can't make one more decision today.' I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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 your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It's what you learn.