Simon Cowell

Entertainer

1959-10-07

Quotes by Simon Cowell

• In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

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• 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.

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• Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

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• My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

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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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• I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

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• I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

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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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• People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

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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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• Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

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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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• 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.

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• You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

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• If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

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• I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

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• 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.

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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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