Abby Lee Miller

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

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. ”

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! ”

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

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame. ”

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

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

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it. ”

I just was never into performing. It's just hard work. It's hard work. ”

I like to work. ”