black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Cowell

I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
SIMON COWELL

Levels School Three
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.
SIMON COWELL

People Phones Stuff
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
SIMON COWELL

Break Broken Hearted Moving
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.
SIMON COWELL

Artist Country People Song Understand Years
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELL

Hard Work People Work
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
SIMON COWELL

Actors Genius Thinking
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 COWELL

Girl Kindness Zero
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.
SIMON COWELL

Country Firsts People Wants Years
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
SIMON COWELL

Car Magazines Only
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
SIMON COWELL

Flattery Nice Stranger
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.
SIMON COWELL

Being Different People Want
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 COWELL

Book Country People Phones
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
SIMON COWELL

Ships Singing Song
I 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.
SIMON COWELL

Broken Shows Song Television
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
SIMON COWELL

Advice Business Careers
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.
SIMON COWELL

Addiction Baths Sometimes Three

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simon Cowell Quotes