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.
SIMON COWELLEvery time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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 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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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 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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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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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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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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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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