Abby Lee Miller Quotes

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

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.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I used to teach dance lessons.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

When I was younger, I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

I haven't danced since I stopped at 28. I haven't even taken a class.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

Until I was in 6th grade, I took ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop.

If I was trained as a dancer then I probably would have been a dancer, and I'm not.