Quotes About Intimidating Someone

#1. Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.

Bernie Sanders

#2. I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

Anne Lamott

#3. Like black, do you? (Cassandra)
It serves its purpose. It's hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

Jennifer O'Neill

#5. My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Vince Cable

#6. The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially ... it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you.

Stanley Cavell

#7. Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger."
"Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you."
"Sparky?

Rick Riordan

#8. Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

Alice Miller

#9. Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

Tom Weston-Jones

#10. Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

Alexandra Robbins

#11. But confidence bred confidence, that's what her dad had always told her back in the days when she'd been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.

Megan Hart

#12. I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Chris Evans

#13. I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

Lisa Marie Presley

#14. People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

Gin Wigmore

#15. Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

Asif Kapadia

#16. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Criss Jami

#17. Here's the thing: If you're taking roles that aren't intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if it's not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

Matt Lauria

#18. What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Stanley Schmidt

#21. In MMA it's a lot less intimidating because it's not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months ... With the Olympics, you don't always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.

Ronda Rousey

#22. I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

Felicia Day

#23. I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Jessica Simpson

#24. Every woman's pretty intimidating when you only look at her accomplishments.

Rebecca H. Jamison

#25. The most important thing to do is to take risks. The risks are where breakthroughs happen, and big shifts take you to new places and create opportunities. They can be really scary and intimidating, but that means it is taking you out of your comfort zone. All designers look at life through a

Sophia Amoruso

#26. I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Kurt Busiek

#27. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.

Rick Riordan

#28. I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

Donna Air

#29. I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

Paul McCartney

#30. Grocery shopping was intimidating...the aisles were filled with everything from jumbo to miniature travel-sized rations. Who could I call to ask, "Does the size even matter?" I dare not ask my ex-wife.

Tez Brooks

#31. I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

Torrie Wilson

#32. The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating.

Alex Graves

#33. I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

Henry Rollins

#34. Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.

Steven R. McQueen

#35. Letterman is very intimidating because he's so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he's a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.

Norm MacDonald

#36. So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

Ice-T

#37. The main hall of the palace was an intimidating place when empty, because it had been designed for exactly that purpose.

Terry Pratchett

#38. Percy (talking about Annabeth):I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.

Rick Riordan

#39. Annabeth turned the blade of her drakon-bone sword, which Percy had to admit made her look pretty intimidating and hot in a "Barbarian Princess" kind of way. "So I guess your Death Mist is pretty useless, then," she said. The goddess bared her broken

Rick Riordan

#40. I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

#41. He was beautiful. Crazy? Maybe. Intimidating? Definitely. But, beautiful nonetheless.

Kandi Steiner

#42. Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

Julia Stegner

#43. She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous ... He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#44. Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

Kevin Steele

#45. Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#46. he leaves me alone after a kiss to the top of my head but not before I have the last word. "Tweedlewart." "What?" "You're a tweedlewart." "Is that supposed to be insulting, Tessie?" "It sounded a little bit more intimidating in my head.

Blair Holden

#47. I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

Whit Stillman

#48. Everyone says to you, 'if you play Ophelia, you'll end up crazy,' but we're all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, and I think that if you approach it that way it's not such an intimidating issue.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#49. Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#50. Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

Christina Milian

#51. The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

Tyra Banks

#52. Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Vinnie Jones

#53. I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

Christa Campbell

#54. Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

Peter Jacobson

#55. Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don't think it's easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids

Patrick Lencioni

#56. I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

Keegan Bradley

#57. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1

J.D. Nixon

#58. I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

Beth Orton

#59. It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Piper Perabo

#60. There are tons of ways women can get into the sport easly. I think it is not as intimidating as many people think it is.

Robin Farina

#61. I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

Claire Danes

#62. I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Nikki Reed

#63. Adante cocked her head to the side. "What did you expect one of the Bahree to be? Intimidating and angry?"
"Yeah, something more like you," he said with a disarming smile.
Adante rolled her eyes. "Very funny.

Jasmine Angell

#64. She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention, but by a desire to experience life completely and to make life a little easier for the people around her

Rebecca Miller

#65. The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Daniel Radcliffe

#66. I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#67. The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Heather Langenkamp

#68. My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.

Georgia Jagger

#69. I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

Richard Greenberg

#70. It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

Gia Coppola

#71. I don't think that I would go into the writers' room because they work really hard and I feel like I'm already working really hard to shoot my part of the show. Also, I haven't written in a writers' room before, it's kinda intimidating to walk in there.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

#72. I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me ... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Karen Black

#73. Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating?

Sandra Day O'Connor

#74. I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

Ted Allen

#75. Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

Garry Wills

#76. Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice.

Amanda Petrusich

#77. The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Bill Watterson

#78. It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

Billy Joel

#79. Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.

Miya Yamanouchi

#80. The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.

Ron Livingston

#81. I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Kristin Cast

#82. I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.

Franka Potente

#83. I glanced at Pike, but Pike was staring out the front door. Intimidating the neighborhood. I said, Maybe he mentioned a buddy who worked at a Shell Station or an ex-con he would have drinks with.

Robert Crais

#84. The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#85. The closed doorway to Mr. Langley's homeroom, once so intimidating, has no effect on me now. I shove it open and storm inside, tardy and fully prepared to take on anyone who has a problem with that.

Meg Kimball

#86. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.

Jay-Z

#87. Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

Jane Smiley

#88. I tried all kinds of approaches: sexy, friendly, intimidating - nothing worked. I'm starting to think there's an invisible force field that prevents honest communication between X and Y chromosomes.

Jody Gehrman

#89. The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

Paul Johnson

#90. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.

Lorraine Heath

#91. Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.

Lynda Resnick

#92. To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

Wentworth Miller

#93. When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Clancy Brown

#94. People out there are waiting to be on your side. But first you have to tell them where you are so they can come stand with you. I know verbalizing what you feel - what you need - can be intimidating if you've never done it before. But using your voice is a kind of strength that makes you powerful.

Emery Lord

#95. Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

Sela Ward

#96. Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

Wendy Kaminer

#97. When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.

Dita Von Teese

#98. To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

Rebecca Black

#99. Listen you..you.."he sputtered.
"You what ? You've already used hellion,draft girl and missy' .i can think of several more degradation,but then again im not the one trying so hard to be intimidating."
"How about you,maddending,foolish,moronic little chit ?"
"Much better !" she applauded.

Kate Noble

#100. Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Don Drysdale