Simon Cowell

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

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

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.'

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.