Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
SIMON COWELLNot everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
SIMON COWELLI actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
SIMON COWELLThe only magazines I read are car magazines.
SIMON COWELLIt was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
SIMON COWELLThe 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.
SIMON COWELLWhat I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
SIMON COWELLI couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.
SIMON COWELLI suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
SIMON COWELLI’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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 COWELLAs an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
SIMON COWELLIf 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.
SIMON COWELLMy advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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.’
SIMON COWELLYou sounded like Dolly parton on helium.” (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'”Eight Days A Week.)
SIMON COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
SIMON COWELL