Top 100 Quotes About Intimidating
#1. Don't get too chummy with me, Cas. I'll eat you alive." - Swift
... "Was that a threat? God, you're the least intimidating pirate I've ever had the misfortune to meet." - Cas
Emily Skrutskie
#2. No type of therapy compares to accomplishing heavy and intimidating goals.
Miriam Khalladi
#3. You're wicked smart. And cool. And drama free, which is a huge deal. Drama free is at the top of my list these days. You can be intimidating."
"Me? But I'm a Hufflepuff.
Penny Reid
#4. 'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly ... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
Leigh-Allyn Baker
#5. Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.
Timothy B. Schmit
#6. I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.
Lucy Lawless
#7. Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.
Daniel Radcliffe
#8. Their relationship wouldn't be easy and the realities of a future with him were intimidating. Yet the strength of her attraction overcame her doubts.
Debbie Macomber
#9. The miller's hefty wife, Madam Weber, already armed with a pitchfork, insisted on joining the fight, and because she appeared more intimidating than most of us men, we instantly welcomed her to our bloodthirsty ranks.
Carsten Jensen
#10. In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?
Claire Danes
#11. Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.
Jessica Simpson
#12. insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
Ben Aaronovitch
#13. A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.
Rachel McAdams
#14. The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Benjamin Walker
#15. First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.
Ondi Timoner
#16. When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
Alexandra Maria Lara
#17. How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.
Alex Shakar
#18. At first, I found their enthusiasm a bit intimidating. But once I got to know them - and realized they weren't swingers - I was grateful for it.
Darynda Jones
#19. When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud ... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.
Helen Mirren
#20. Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.
Adam Carolla
#21. I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.
Andie MacDowell
#22. Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.
Ben Morgan
#23. Fear strives for popularity, favor, and success in ways that are damaging to our soul. Fear goes around banging on pots and intimidating us by being noisy and pushy. Fear silences us until we lose our voice, if ever we had one. We
T.H. Meyer
#24. I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.
Julia Roberts
#25. If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there that you wish you had thought of, or that you just admire for the originality of it or the difference from what you've been thinking of.
Chris Wedge
#26. Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have the option of sitting on the edge of a circle, I will.
Gavin Rossdale
#27. To say my day sucked would be like saying the Sicilians were only mildly intimidating.
FYI, they were terrifying. Many a man shit their pants in their presence and I was living in my own personal hell.
Rachel Van Dyken
#28. Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
Wendy Davis
#29. Dressing for success may sound intimidating, expensive, and a bit vain; however, keep in mind that your presentation creates credibility.
Michelle Moore
#31. When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.
Herb Trimpe
#32. When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.
Hugh Laurie
#33. I wanted to show you that it's not all cold and intimidating," Finn explained. "I wanted you to see something warm and beautiful.
Amanda Hocking
#34. His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn't seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica)
Shannon A. Thompson
#35. 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.
#36. Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.
Chelsea Handler
#37. Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.
Jonah Goldberg
#38. Pain is such a personal thing. I wear mine like a cloak of protection, keeping people at bay. Max just casually removes it from my shoulders and drops it to the ground. If that weren't intimidating enough, he lays it out like a picnic blanket, waiting for me to take a seat and join him.
Maggi Myers
#39. Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
George Packer
#40. I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.
Janice Dickinson
#41. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
Chinua Achebe
#42. They were intimidating, big, and didn't appear to trust me. I wondered if I seemed dangerous to them, all five feet six inches of me. I glanced down at my skimpy white shorts and purple tank top and wondered if they considered the fact it would be impossible to hide weapons in this outfit.
Abbi Glines
#43. For such a strong, physically intimidating guy, he was so freaking soft. So playful, so generous with affection. So everything I wanted. And everything I didn't think I could handle.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#44. I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
Pat Summerall
#45. They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
Barry Levinson
#46. The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
Leigh Steinberg
#47. My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.
Rita Dove
#48. I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.
Jim Benton
#49. Her face may have been the most beautiful female face I have ever seen. Yet, it was a beauty that was intimidating and overwhelming. It was an exquisiteness that made you want to turn and run, instead of approach.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#50. Piper wasn't used to anyone intimidating her, but being in the presence of Phoebe Calebow was being in the presence of greatness.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#51. In any medium, I also start out assuming - even planning - that I'll delete the first thing I do, whether it's a paragraph or the first few rows of a scarf. That makes those first steps far less precious and therefore less intimidating.
Kim Piper Werker
#52. We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
Steven Soderbergh
#53. I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Dave Bautista
#54. Zentangling creations may seem really intricate and intimidating. However, when you learn the basics, you will realize it is simple. It is like learning the secret to a magic trick. In Zentangling, you ask the question "So what else can I not do?
Valerie Coven
#55. If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.
John Wooden
#56. I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
Lorde
#57. I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna Ciccone
#58. So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
Marlo Thomas
#59. I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.
Helen Mirren
#60. When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the United States. The alleged greatest Australian wine, Penfolds Grange, wasn't imported to the United States. There were no by-the-glass programs. Sommeliers were intimidating.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#61. He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
#62. Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.
Rob James-Collier
#63. Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.
Joey Fatone
#64. The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.
Mark Hodder
#65. Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
Elisabeth Elliot
#66. I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
Padma Lakshmi
#67. men go for crazy women. Especially sensible men. They are seduced by the intimidating deformity of a crazy mind.
Emilie De Turckheim
#68. Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.
Susane Colasanti
#69. There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.
Blake Shelton
#70. If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
Rachel Weisz
#71. He towered over the Queen with his wings fanned out. Azrael realized he was threatening her, like a peacock intimidating its adversary.
A.J. Flowers
#72. Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#73. What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.
Bryan Cranston
#74. My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
Elizabeth McGovern
#75. Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.
Edi Rama
#76. 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
#77. People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
Shawn Johnson
#78. Every time somebody says 'Islamophobia' it gives the people who are intimidating cover.
Bill Maher
#79. What takes the power out of that great, intimidating consciousness of external evaluation and steadies our hearts once again is the truth that the opinions of man do not count before God.
Anna Blanc
#80. I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
Dan Howell
#81. there was something intimidating about Harrison. His face in repose looked to me like it was closer to a scowl than to any other expression. It was immediately clear that he was no people pleaser; this was more of a people unsettler.
Carrie Fisher
#84. She said confidence and arrogance weren't the same, especially in a Dominant, and I'd know I had the right Dom for me when he was....when he was intimidating enough to be arousing, wise enough to keep me safe, and caring enough to help me grow, even when the right choices were hard ones.
M.Q. Barber
#85. As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.
Jennifer Baumgardner
#86. Brandishing sword and pistol, and flanked by several men, she managed to be sufficiently intimidating and the attackers had been frightened away.
Sylvia Day
#87. I never realized how intimidating it could be to be authentic
Jordon Johnson
#88. If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.
Steven Furtick
#89. I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.
Mike Birbiglia
#90. Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
Caitlin Doughty
#91. Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale.
Charlie Lovett
#93. It was impossible to be intimidating when the person you were staring down was a foot taller than you.
James S.A. Corey
#94. In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#95. I'll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.
Anne Sexton
#96. Apollo straddled the prone dandy and leaned down into his face, intimidating him as he'd dared to do to Lily. Don't come ... back until ... you can talk ... to her with a civil tongue.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#97. I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.
Emma Mills
#98. Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.
Jon Meacham
#99. When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
Jeff Lemire
#100. Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.
Eric Frank Russell
