The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
SIMON COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
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Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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