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.
SIMON COWELLI like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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You sounded like Dolly parton on helium.” (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'”Eight Days A Week.)
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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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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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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
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