Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
SIMON COWELLI actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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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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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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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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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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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I’m bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I’m thinking to myself, ‘If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,’ and then I start laughing and I can’t stop.
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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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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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 didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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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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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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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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I’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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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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.
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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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I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
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