Simon Cowell Quotes

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

There are often days when I've sat down in my office for hours and prepped for a show knowing, three minutes before I go on, some big crazy thing happens where everything is thrown out, and the teleprompter goes blank.

The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

Working on 'WAGS' is obviously very different than working on wrestling television. It's very different in the way that there is not nearly as much to do for 'WAGS.'

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I'd be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

Thankfully, my manager didn't talk me into 'Big Brother' or 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'

I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

I do not believe in planning.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

That's the beautiful thing about my show... It's truly different every week. We get to pick and choose. Every morning, the girl from production comes to me with 100 different items, and I go, 'Fake, fake, fake, fake... that's cool.'

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

Celebrity Apprentice' was something where you don't know what you're going to do the next day. Every two days, somebody goes home, and you don't know if the next day you've got to be the project manager or what's going to happen, so you can't really prepare. You really have to be on top of everything.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact, my first show was 'Shava Shava', which was a singing reality show.

I take it season by season. I don't like looking too far ahead, because you never know what can happen.

I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

I imagine when you're making a reality show with a whole crew, it's bound to get complicated.