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.
SIMON COWELLI 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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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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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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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’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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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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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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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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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 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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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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