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 COWELLMy proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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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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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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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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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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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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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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Every 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.’
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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.
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