Top 101 Intimidating Quotes

Young people are intimidating. But I really want them to like me. There is something about a group of teens that turns me into a performing monkey.

If they would have introduced me as someone who is basically The Undertaker’s boss, it would have fell flat. I’m 200 pounds and I’m 5’10”, so it certainly would have been difficult to take me seriously as someone who is intimidating The Undertaker.

I am as it is a very shy person, so for me to be able to have something bright and intelligent to say every time a microphone is thrust in front of me, it’s very intimidating.

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

I am a marked person, and no one who’s unmarked is going to understand that. It’s very intimidating. I don’t even know what my place is anymore. What’s my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

I think a lot of guys think they can do voice acting, but when you hear the pros and they are so great… that’s a little intimidating.

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.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like ‘Star Trek’ is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

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.

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.

It’s intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don’t have an interior designer.

Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he’s done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He’s a workaholic. He’s passionate. He loves what he does.

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.

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.

The Fall was super powerful to me because of their covers. They were intimidating. I bought ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’ when it came out in 1985, and there was something about it that made me nervous. It terrified me.

I do my own way of witnessing. Not by verbally intimidating people but just by my actions.

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.

It’s really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

Speaking out against social media giants like Facebook is intimidating, particularly when I come forward as a whistleblower.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I’ve been told that. But I feel I’m the least intimidating person possible.

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.

Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating – and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.

When you’re driving Tom Cruise around, and he’s literally a race car driver, and you’re supposed to be driving like you really know what you’re doing… It’s quite intimidating.

‘Fix’ – definitely, when I first heard the demo of that song, it was kind of intimidating because of the high falsetto parts. It was one of those things. I got into the vocal booth and wasn’t sure I could do it or how well I could do it. There was something about the song that I really took to.

It’s very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you’re looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it’s intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn’t. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it’s very encouraging to see someone who’s incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

Having such high-profile parents could be intimidating, but really, they’ve let me do my own thing and evolve as a person. When I changed my major from economics to film, they were cool about it.

I was scared to film ‘GLOW’ for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very scary and intimidating experience.

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.

Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the literacy of an intimidating twin-stick controller.

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it’s supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn’t find exactly that.

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.

The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

When I was aspiring to play for India, I’d look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were very intimidating.

You can’t worry about intimidating me and playing the game at the same time.

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don’t want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

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!

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

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.

The first thing that was intimidating was when I started rehearsing to play Riff in the London company. That first day of rehearsal, I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to learn this. I’m too slow.’

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.’

When a show’s already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

I was going out with a few girls and we were in a local. A girl started shouting ‘Gogglebox’ at me and became really intimidating. I left but I lay awake crying, wondering if the girl knew where I lived.

Amazon’s identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

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.

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?

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it’s intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

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

I’m prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she’s too intimidating. They’re not looking for somebody beautiful; they’re looking for somebody to amuse them.

I don’t think old posh is as intimidating as new posh, is it?

For me, Robbie Williams was a massive influence when I was growing up. But also Cheryl Cole. Being in her presence was intimidating, because she’s so hot.