Quotes About Intimidated

#1. When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

Marin Ireland

#2. Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.

Donna McKechnie

#3. I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.

Mel Gibson

#4. I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Chloe Sevigny

#5. You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Anthony Daniels

#6. I am someone that is very hard to handle. I'm very picante, intense ... Sometimes I'm very outgoing and spontaneous and super hyper. Latinas, we love to touch each other - like, cuddle. That's why a lot of people are intimidated.

Lele Pons

#7. Your presence on this earth are important, even though you may not believe it. Of course, such ideas could land you in a lot of trouble for breaking the Law of Jante, but don't be intimidated. Continue to live without fear, and you will triumph in the end.' The

Paulo Coelho

#8. Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

Robert Dallek

#9. Whenever we went out to film in the street we would end up in the police station and in the offices of some other security agency. They deliberately intimidated us. I moved to Kurdistan and changed my name and made my first feature film in Kurdistan with very basic resources.

Hassan Blasim

#10. People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Robin Hobb

#11. I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

Romola Garai

#12. I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library ... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Drew Barrymore

#13. Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

Lucy Prebble

#14. I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man.

Michael Moriarty

#15. I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

Laura Mvula

#16. After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

Gloria Swanson

#17. When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.

Emmet Fox

#18. I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

Dolly Parton

#19. When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged ... I rejoice that I am a part of it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#20. I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Anna Kendrick

#21. Intimidated by her, too, but they recognized her value. Before long,

Kate White

#22. threatened Joel, intimidated him into doing it.' But even if that were

Linwood Barclay

#23. I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.

Ice-T

#24. Jay was intimidating to the point where I was totally intimidated before I even got to the booth. But I was like, this is going to be a test of my mettle. In the South, I'm regarded as the guy who, quote unquote, out-rapped Jay-Z.

Bun B.

#25. Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Charlie Brooker

#26. I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100 percent perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.

Nicki Minaj

#27. If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Tony Campolo

#28. I am unique ... I play by a different set of rules; I am not intimidated by anything.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#29. I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success.

Monika Chiang

#30. To attempt to force them into a peonage of starvation and intimidated despair will be unsuccessful. They can be citizens of the highest type, or they can be an army driven by suffering and hatred to take what they need. On their future treatment will depend which course they will be forced to take.

John Steinbeck

#31. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousand pages in paperback. I've heard several people say the size alone intimidated them.

Ann Leckie

#32. What does the leopard teach us? Not to be intimidated by animals that outweigh him. To be fearless and daring. It

J.D. Jacobs

#33. If s/he is intimidated by your achievements so far, s/he shouldn't be in your future because s/he cannot handle what is coming...

Assegid Habtewold

#34. I have never intimidated the masses ... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Zhu Rongji

#35. I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

Tom Allen

#36. If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

Henry Cavill

#37. We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Dan Meyer

#38. The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

Jim Cymbala

#39. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

Bradford Cox

#40. I don't know if boys are intimidated by her or afraid of her or what, but I know her heart is open and ready for a special guy to walk in.

Lisa Schroeder

#41. Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

Travis Fimmel

#42. Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.

Joseph Campbell

#43. I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Alan Cumming

#44. When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

Henry Cavill

#45. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Robert Kennedy

#46. The university... has intimidated her so that she will always give the "right" answer instead of the Christian answer, regardless of what she really believes.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#47. People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

Gloria Gaynor

#48. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

Derek Ridgers

#49. Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

Olivia Wilde

#50. I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.

Bobby Flay

#51. People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

Jon Voight

#52. Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.

Safak Pavey

#53. People are intimidated by people they cannot imitate.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#54. I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

Khloe Kardashian

#55. I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Dolly Parton

#56. He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

David Louden

#57. What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

Eva Marie Saint

#58. Girls irritated her, intimidated her, and finally bored her; around girls she became a territorial, sniffing their asses, showing her teeth. It was not a part of herself she liked. Around boys she was herself, she could relax; she had nothing to win but them.

Eleanor Henderson

#59. The bitch-goddess, as she is called, of Success, roamed, snarling and protective, round the half-humble, half-defiant Michaelis' heels, and intimidated Clifford completely: for he wanted to prostitute himself to the bitchgoddess, Success also, if only she would have him.

D.H. Lawrence

#60. Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

Rowan Atkinson

#61. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Elisabeth Shue

#62. Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Margaret Keane

#63. She was probably used to testing her maturity and newfound confidence around hesitant boys closer to her age, but the lesson to be learned was that unlike boys who are intimidated by feminine boldness, men like me are inflamed by it.

R.S. Grey

#64. Yes, but if you have difficulty deciphering my sesquipedalian language, then you must be even more intimidated by my magnitudious appearance.

Peggy Christian

#65. Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Paulo Coelho

#66. It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
(on Kieran Richardson)

Rio Ferdinand

#67. People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase

Sunday Adelaja

#68. Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

Tim Kimmel

#69. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Timothy Leary

#70. In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.

Rashida Jones

#71. When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.

Buddy DeFranco

#72. Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Sara Blakely

#73. Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.

Ken Singleton

#74. Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.

Jeremy Luke

#75. More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within.

Nikki Rowe

#76. If you're not intimidated or maybe a little weary of taking on a role, then it may not be challenging enough and it may not be worth doing.

Matt Lauria

#77. What I found most refreshing about Governor Ventura was his willingness to defend his positions and attack his interrogators ... He's an imposing man who's not easily intimidated, and he's convinced he has the aura that will take him to higher places.

Jesse Ventura

#78. I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Michael Lehmann

#79. For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Paulo Coelho

#80. If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

Calvin Jillson

#81. You need to be around people who know more than you and have more talent than you. Don't be intimidated by them; be inspired.

Joel Osteen

#82. Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?'
'Oh yes,' said Thomas.
'I don't believe it. By whom?'
'By Our Lord... on the altar.

Louis De Wohl

#83. I'm not intimidated by anyone.

Thalia

#84. I opened my eyes as wide as I could. "Why, of course, Your Majesty. What was I thinking? I will go and do this right away, just please don't look at me." "Kate, get in the car." "Maybe you should growl dramatically. I don't think I'm intimidated enough.

Ilona Andrews

#85. This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Tom Ford

#86. It's really just taking action - whether that's approaching someone you're intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you need to learn.

Ryan Holiday

#87. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

#88. When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Jimmy Carter

#89. There's no way a woman could possibly resist your charm"
Dominic smiled. "Or my dick. Don't worry, I won't get it out. I don't want you all to get intimidated. and in the interest of health and safety, I think it's better that he's not unleashed.

Suzanne Wright

#90. The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

Portia Doubleday

#91. It takes considerable getting used to. I hated it for two years. It intimidated me daily until one morning when someone pushed me on a bus and I pushed back. After I pushed back I realized I'd become a part of it.

Harper Lee

#92. The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

Benazir Bhutto

#93. It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

Brene Brown

#94. Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.

Tess Gerritsen

#95. I don't know why or how he expected total compliance from us women. I mean, were their women that intimidated that they did everything they were told? Well, wakeup call from Earth. We do not bow to anyone.

T.J. Yelden

#96. He was bested by a better fighter, ... I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

Antonio Tarver

#97. Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#98. If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

Tavi Gevinson

#99. In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

Lisa See

#100. HONESTLY ... I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people.
HONESTY ... will help you grow and it shows maturity.
HONEST ... people will push you closer towards your destiny.

Takina Cupp