I 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 COWELLNot everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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 still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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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 break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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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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What 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.
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