Top 120 Simon Cowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.”

— Simon Cowell

52. “I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.”

— Simon Cowell

53. “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

54. “Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.”

— Simon Cowell

55. “Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.”

— Simon Cowell

56. “I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.”

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

58. “Most things in music go full circle eventually.”

— Simon Cowell

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never, 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!”

— Simon Cowell

63. “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.”

— Simon Cowell

64. “It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.”

— Simon Cowell

65. “What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It’s true. I’d miss me.”

— Simon Cowell

66. “You have an advantage if you win. I always think it’s best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It’s definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.”

— Simon Cowell

67. “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.”

— Simon Cowell

68. “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

69. “I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one’s going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They’re likely to say: “Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you.””

— Simon Cowell

70. “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

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

— Simon Cowell

72. “At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.”

— Simon Cowell

73. “I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I’m selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think – and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad – I could never be my own girlfriend!”

— Simon Cowell

74. “My life honestly isn’t as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I’m not really that different.”

— Simon Cowell

75. “It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns.”

— Simon Cowell

76. “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

77. “My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.”

— Simon Cowell

78. “It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.”

— Simon Cowell

79. “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.”

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

81. “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.”

— Simon Cowell

82. “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

83. “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

84. “Anything I shouldn’t laugh at makes me laugh.”

— Simon Cowell

85. “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

86. “When I think of invention, I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: ‘Have you got the next big idea?’ There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.”

— Simon Cowell

87. “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.”

— Simon Cowell

88. “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

89. “It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.”

— Simon Cowell

90. “The only magazines I read are car magazines.”

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

93. “What I’m interested in watching is to make sure that they give the right advice now to the contestants who are going forward because, you know, it’s one thing just to criticize but you’ve got to also give, you know, good advice which is going to help them. Overall, I think they’re a good panel.”

— Simon Cowell

94. “Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.”

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell

98. “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

99. “I turned down many chances to be on TV before ‘Pop Idol’ because I really wasn’t interested in being famous. I didn’t need it and didn’t want it.”

— Simon Cowell

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

— Simon Cowell