Top 50 Heather Morris Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.”

— Heather Morris

2. “If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day.”

— Heather Morris

3. “Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.”

— Heather Morris

4. “It’s only your own space if you make it yours.”

— Heather Morris

5. “My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed – I didn’t hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.”

— Heather Morris

6. “When I’m working 16-hour days and I can’t work out, I get angry very easily. It’s because I’m missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.”

— Heather Morris

7. “Beyonce was just always full-out. She’s like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: ‘Just Do It.’”

— Heather Morris

8. “My head is pounding. Like the worst hangover ever.”

— Heather Morris

9. “I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.”

— Heather Morris

10. “I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn’t always have a boyfriend!”

— Heather Morris

11. “Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I’m not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.”

— Heather Morris

12. “I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.”

— Heather Morris

13. “I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!”

— Heather Morris

14. “I can’t live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it’s easier on my eyes.”

— Heather Morris

15. “You don’t want to be too cool. But you don’t want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.”

— Heather Morris

16. “I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.”

— Heather Morris

17. “The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the ’80s – Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That’s it.”

— Heather Morris

18. “Flirt!’s mascara is insane – I don’t need false lashes when I wear it.”

— Heather Morris

19. “Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don’t. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn’t like always being in pain, so they had to go!”

— Heather Morris

20. “You know what’s really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.”

— Heather Morris

21. “I want to make everybody laugh.”

— Heather Morris

22. “I carry one black mascara and one brown.”

— Heather Morris

23. “I’ve wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up – and I wrote ‘a famous singer!’”

— Heather Morris

24. “Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.”

— Heather Morris

25. “There were ten dancers – four guys and six girls – including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal – just like everybody else!”

— Heather Morris

26. “It is this fire, then, that keeps her going. But it is also a curse. It makes her stand out, be singled out. She must contain it, control it, direct it. To survive.”

— Heather Morris

27. “As long as we are alive and healthy, everything will work out for the best.”

— Heather Morris

28. “His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it.”

— Heather Morris

29. “Politics will help you understand the world until you don’t understand it anymore, and then it will get you thrown into a prison camp. Politics and religion both.”

— Heather Morris

30. “But she – she will live. She doesn’t know why she has always been sure of that, why she feels she can persist – keep picking up this needle even though it’s as heavy as a brick, keep sewing, keep doing what she has to do – but she can.”

— Heather Morris

31. “The tattooing has taken only seconds, but Lale’s shock makes time stand still. He grasps his arm, staring at the number. How can someone do this to another human being? He wonders if for the rest of his life, be it short or long, he will be defined by this moment, this irregular number: 32407.”

— Heather Morris

32. “She hopes she will be able to explain to Josie later that he can have her body and that is all; he cannot have her mind, her heart, her soul.”

— Heather Morris

33. “The twinkling of stars overhead is no longer a comfort. They merely remind him of the chasm between what life can be and what it is now.”

— Heather Morris

34. “Anger is what we feel when we’re helpless.”

— Heather Morris

35. “Back in his room, Lale carefully places the precious flower beside his bed before falling into a dreamless sleep, but the next morning when he wakes, the petals from his flower have separated and lie curled up beside the black center. Death alone persists in this place.”

— Heather Morris

36. “The last word must go to Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it,” he wrote in the foreword to his classic study, The Gulag Archipelago. “And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all, nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it.”

— Heather Morris

37. “Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism.”

— Heather Morris

38. “Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear.”

— Heather Morris

39. “You must first learn to listen to her. Even if you are tired, never be too tired to listen to what she has to say. Learn what she likes and, more important, what she doesn’t like. When you can, give her little treats – flowers, chocolates. Women like those things.”

— Heather Morris

40. “Did I tell you about Cilka?” “No, Lale, you didn’t. Who was Cilka?” “She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person.”

— Heather Morris

41. “You must first learn to listen to her. Even if you are tired, never be too tired to listen to what she has to say. Learn what she likes and, more important, what she doesn’t like.”

— Heather Morris

42. “Things are as they are. What I can see, feel, hear and smell right now.”

— Heather Morris

43. “His mother he can see perfectly. But how do you say goodbye to your mother? The person who gave you breath, who taught you how to live?”

— Heather Morris

44. “It’s time to live now, Cilka,” he says. “Without fear, and with the miracle of love.” “Is that a poem?” she asks him, smiling through her tears. “It is the beginning of one.”

— Heather Morris

45. “How can a race that is spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat? For as long as he lives, be it short or long, he knows he will never comprehend this.”

— Heather Morris

46. “How can someone do this to another human being? He wonders if for the rest of his life, be it short or long, he will be defined by this moment, this irregular number: 32407.”

— Heather Morris

47. “To him, all women were beautiful and he believed there was no harm in telling them so.”

— Heather Morris

48. “How can a race that is spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?”

— Heather Morris

49. “I’d thought you’d given up on me.”

— Heather Morris

50. “She wonders if her feelings for men are to be only fear and pity?”

— Heather Morris