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Simon Cowell Quotes

Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.

– Simon Cowell

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and ‘The X Factor’ have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

– Simon Cowell

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I’ve never got ill is that I’m not stressed.

– Simon Cowell

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

– Simon Cowell

When you’re making a reality show, you can’t even plan a week ahead now.

– Simon Cowell

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you’re working with is also making money. That’s life!

– Simon Cowell

At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

– Simon Cowell

If I had one dog, I’d want a hundred. If I had one kid, I’d probably want a hundred. I mean, it’s just the way I am.

– Simon Cowell

I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can’t think properly. If you’ve got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

– Simon Cowell

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

– Simon Cowell

When someone asks, ‘Does success make you into a monster?’ I always say, ‘No, it enables you to be a monster.’

– Simon Cowell

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions – if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

– Simon Cowell

Everyone who turns up on ‘X Factor’ does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

– Simon Cowell

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.

– Simon Cowell

I don’t have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you’d see ‘Jaws’ and ‘Star Wars.’ In the book library, you’d see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it’s, like, children’s food – chips, milkshakes, yogurt.

– Simon Cowell

I can’t admit things; that’s why I can’t go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

– Simon Cowell

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.

– Simon Cowell

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.

– Simon Cowell

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

– Simon Cowell

If I was gay, why wouldn’t I admit it? It wouldn’t harm me.

– Simon Cowell

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: ‘Have you got the next big idea?’ There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

– Simon Cowell

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

– Simon Cowell

I’ve never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I’ve got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don’t believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make ‘American Idol ‘a better show.

– Simon Cowell

I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.

– Simon Cowell

If you’ve got a big mouth and you’re controversial, you’re going to get attention.

– Simon Cowell

My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

– Simon Cowell

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum’s house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

– Simon Cowell

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.

– Simon Cowell

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

– Simon Cowell

When you get your first pay cheque, it’s the best feeling in the world.

– Simon Cowell

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