Cowell Quotes

#1. I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.

Sanjaya Malakar

#2. I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

Gary Barlow

#3. There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

Peter York

#4. I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

Irving Azoff

#5. If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I'd buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then ... pour ketchup on myself!

Liam Payne

#6. I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Leona Lewis

#7. I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Jackie Evancho

#8. I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.

Toby Young

#9. She was pretty normal back then, before Simon Cowell entered her life.

Jodie Sweetin

#10. Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.

Peter Noone

#11. Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, beautiful man: completely humble and so accessible.

Russell Tovey

#12. Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

Bruce Forsyth

#13. I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

Will Ferrell

#14. The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?

Charles Hazlewood

#15. Seventy-five percent of students visiting the Cowell Health Center at Stanford University describe themselves as "sexually active.

James C. Dobson

#16. I don't need Simon Bloody Cowell making me look like a right tit on the telly.

J.L. Merrow

#17. I love Simon Cowell, he's a dear friend.

Cilla Black

#18. I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

George Benson

#19. I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.

Janice Dickinson

#20. I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.

Nigel Lythgoe

#21. I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

Marilyn Manson

#22. Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

Elton John

#23. For instance: years into the future the building where X Factor is filmed could be a house. The residents may witness the spectre of Simon Cowell saying "That's possibly the worst audition I've ever seen," over and over again.

Pippa Franks

#24. I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

Shirley Bassey

#25. I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell.

Martin Gore

#26. Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

Mick Hucknall

#27. Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Niall Horan

#28. I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

Wentworth Miller

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

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#31. Dull late-afternoon light glittered on the hanging copper pots in the kitchen where the old painter sat with his wine, smoking cigarette, a letter angrily crumpled on the table in front of him.

Stephanie Cowell

#32. Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

Cressida Cowell

#33. Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Simon Cowell

#34. Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Simon Cowell

#35. 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

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

Simon Cowell

#37. My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.

Simon Cowell

#38. 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

#39. My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Simon Cowell

#40. You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

Simon Cowell

#41. I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Simon Cowell

#42. On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

Simon Cowell

#43. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

#44. It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey)

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Cressida Cowell

#49. I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Simon Cowell

#50. But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Cressida Cowell

#51. 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

#52. Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

Simon Cowell

#53. I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Brendan Cowell

#54. Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Cressida Cowell

#55. I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

Simon Cowell

#56. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...

Cressida Cowell

#57. You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."
(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#59. Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

Simon Cowell

#60. CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.

Cressida Cowell

#61. Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#63. Always sailing, sailing, sailing ... never quite reaching.

Cressida Cowell

#64. 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.

Simon Cowell

#65. My poison is creeping through his body.
My strong venom is killing his heart.

Cressida Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#67. I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Simon Cowell

#68. We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.

Simon Cowell

#69. What other people think about me is none of my business .

Simon Cowell

#70. 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.

Simon Cowell

#71. Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

Simon Cowell

#72. A Chief must show no fear, no worry ... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second ...

Cressida Cowell

#73. 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.

Simon Cowell

#74. I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time ... I was born to be a dad.

Simon Cowell

#75. The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

Simon Cowell

#76. I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#78. 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

#79. I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Simon Cowell

#80. Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

Cressida Cowell

#81. 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.

Simon Cowell

#82. The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares.
The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.

Cressida Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.

Simon Cowell

#87. 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

#88. I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil of pain that fell across her face most of the day, and all of the night.

Brendan Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#92. 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

#93. I didn't mean to come here ...
And I didn't mean to stay ...
It's just where the sea wind blew me
One accidental day ...

Cressida Cowell

#94. My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

Simon Cowell

#95. 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.

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell

#97. Because it was all I wanted to fucking know. It was all I wanted to know in this fucking world: where did the beautiful boys go? Where did the beautiful boys go? Where the hell did they go?

Brendan Cowell

#98. The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

Cressida Cowell

#99. 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.

Simon Cowell

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

Simon Cowell