Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
SIMON COWELLIt’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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’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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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 don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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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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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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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.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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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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