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

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" 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. "

" It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done 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. "

" 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. "

" There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time. "

" Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. "

" I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons. "

" I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point. "

" If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. "

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

" My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now. "

" Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. "

" 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'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. "

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

" At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Having A Good Time

" I've always treated the music business as a business. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. "