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 COWELLHarshness 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 COWELLI’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 COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELLAt 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
SIMON COWELLI’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.
SIMON COWELLMy proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
SIMON COWELLRules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
SIMON COWELLThe young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
SIMON COWELLI 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.
SIMON COWELLI’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
SIMON COWELLShave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
SIMON COWELLYou sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
SIMON COWELLAs an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
SIMON COWELLI 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.
SIMON COWELLBritain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
SIMON COWELLI never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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