My message to women – including women of color – stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you.
I’ll never be intimidated by somebody, and I will treat you will respect as long as I’m treated with respect.
I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don’t have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
There are moments when I invoke my dad and think about him on the podium, but in a very positive way. I don’t feel at all intimidated by him. I feel like I’ve found my own voice.
Early on, someone had told me, ‘You know, the camera can always tell when you’re lying.’ And, Jesus, that intimidated me. ‘The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?’ Until one day I thought, ‘Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.’
I want people to think I’m sexy, but to know also that I’ve got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
I’m friendly – I’ve never changed – but some people can be intimidated to approach you, especially younger footballers.
I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.
I don’t think I am a big artiste but the new ones do get intimidated by my presence.
The lockdown, in general, left me with a sense of needing to become more independent and instead of being intimidated, I decided to do the engineering on some of my new releases.
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.
I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage.
I’m certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.
When things are happening they don’t hit me at that point of time. The downside is that I don’t get to celebrate the moment, the upside is I don’t get intimidated and I can perform.
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
When you work with someone like Dulquer Salmaan, you tend to get a bit intimidated.
People are really terrified of me. I don’t know why, I’m very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
I think buying shoes is intimidating for a guy. Sitting down taking your shoes off, for men, it’s too much. But you should never be intimidated by anything.
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.
Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that’s cool.
I’m a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.
I’m not physically intimidated by anyone on this earth.
I can’t read fiction when I’m writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.
I’ve always been an animal lover. I’ve grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on ‘Lassie’, I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
As a white Australian, you’re surrounded by this vast landscape you know isn’t yours, so you’re always intimidated. You expect to vanish up a mountain or get eaten by the ground.
It’s definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you’re intimidated by or someone that you didn’t think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we’re all living through high school, every day.
I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn’t. He’s awesome. He’s so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.
I guess the men who are meant to be a part of my life won’t be intimidated by me and will be stronger. There’s a specific breed that won’t be afraid.
I just want a guy that is secure with himself and is not intimidated by what I do and how I can provide for myself, because I don’t need a man for that, nor have I ever looked for a man to just take care of me.
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there’s no one way. It’s your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It’s your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
If you’re a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn’t feel that you have to own one, either.
If someone’s intimidated by me, that’s something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I’m not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I’m not in the wrong. I’m a millionaire, and I’m not thinking about grabbing an old woman’s purse.
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.
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.
If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.
I’m not intimidated by anyone.
I went out of Brazil very early, so the people in Brazil didn’t know me well. So they didn’t support me so much. I was never intimidated by this because I always knew that I had to go to the field and do my job.
Maybe I was intimidated by my father’s talent and success.
I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what’s going on around you.
I’m sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you’re supposed to, but I feel like it’s time, when you get older, through experience, to… I started to feel quite… what’s the word? … intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.
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.
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won’t be intimidated.
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
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.
