I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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.
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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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I’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?
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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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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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I 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.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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 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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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.
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