Quotes by Simon Cowell

About Simon Cowell:

Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television talent judge and mentor, music and television producer, and music talent scout (aka A&R executive). He is most recognized as a judge on the English TV talent competition series Pop Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, and the American TV singing competition shows American Idol and The X Factor. Cowell owns the television production and music publishing house Syco.
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No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Simon Cowell

You always want to go to a party where you get an invite.

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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

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.

Simon Cowell

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

Simon Cowell

You are a saucy little thing aren't you?

Simon Cowell

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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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 s...

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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 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.

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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 wou...

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If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.

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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.

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Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

Simon Cowell

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

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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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Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

Simon Cowell

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

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I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSimon Cowell
  • DescriptionBritish artist executive
  • AliasesSimon Philips Cowell Mc'keber
  • BornOctober 7, 1959
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Producer; Writer