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.
SIMON COWELLPraise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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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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You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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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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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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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 personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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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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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 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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Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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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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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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