363 Quotes by Simon Cowell

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

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

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 actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.

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.

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.

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

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.

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.