Top 55 Simon Cowell Quotes

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

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

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.

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?

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.

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.

You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?

It’s the government’s job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it’s the government’s duty to inspire confidence.

I don’t like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they’re excited and enjoying the process, then I think it’s wrong to discriminate.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven’t been to a gym in years.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you’re dead.

I don’t mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

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

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

My own saying is: ‘Create the hype, but don’t ever believe it.’

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That’s why I turned out the way I am.

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

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.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, ‘Why are you telling me how successful you are?’ I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

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

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

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.

I’m going to give all my money away, eventually. I don’t believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don’t think I’d want to give them everything.

Anyone who goes on ‘The X Factor’ to make big money will be in for a big shock.

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

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

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

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.

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

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she’s the most boring singer in the world.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

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.

I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don’t care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.

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.

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: ‘Live in your money rather than look at it.’

It’s not my habit to kiss and tell. I’ve never done it.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it’s the best thing in the world.

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