Abby Lee Miller Quotes

"I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it."

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

"My success rate speaks for itself."

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

"I made lots of mistakes - the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments."

"I want to be an executive producer."

"I was told that someone on Facebook said something 'horrible' about me. Who cares? At least they're watching the show."

"I saw 'Magic Mike,' and I thought it was great."

"When you're so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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 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."

"Don't hire a prison consultant."

"You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it's going to come back to haunt you."

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

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

"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 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."

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