I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
SIMON COWELLYou didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
More Simon Cowell Quotes
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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 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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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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At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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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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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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It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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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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It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
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I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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