My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
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.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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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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 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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You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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I 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.
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I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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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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The 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.
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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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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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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You 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.)
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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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