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 COWELLYou didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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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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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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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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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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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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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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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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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