Don’t get me started on critics.
BEVERLY SILLSDon’t get me started on critics.
BEVERLY SILLSAs soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
BEVERLY SILLSI don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
BEVERLY SILLSThe Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
BEVERLY SILLSA primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
BEVERLY SILLSEverything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
BEVERLY SILLSYou may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
BEVERLY SILLSMy voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.
BEVERLY SILLSThe press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
BEVERLY SILLSThe last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
BEVERLY SILLSI never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS