All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

