As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
SIMON COWELLI didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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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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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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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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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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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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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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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There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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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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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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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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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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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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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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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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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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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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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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