Menace Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

(in April 1961) "Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I`ve got it, sure; but I`m not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it`s a dirty word. That`s the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists - and fight it! Cancer is everybody`s enemy. We can`t `think` an enemy out of existence by ignoring it."

- Gary Cooper

I wasn`t disappointed by The Phantom Menace. I know a lot of people were but I was one of those cats who wasn`t. You go in with low expectations, or not expecting it to bring you right back to the days of your youth, but it`s kind of a fun movie.

- Kevin Smith

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

- Hugh Grant

(in April 1961) "Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I`ve got it, sure; but I`m not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it`s a dirty word. That`s the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists - and fight it! Cancer is everybody`s enemy. We can`t `think` an enemy out of existence by ignoring it."

- Gary Cooper

(When asked about his character in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)) "He`s black."

- Samuel L. Jackson

Some people have youth, some have beauty - I have menace.

- Edward G. Robinson

On playing the Riddler in "Batman" (1966): "When I was first approached to play the Riddler, I thought it was a joke. Then I discovered the show had a good script and agreed to do the role.... Now I am in love with the character. I developed the Riddler`s fiendish laugh at Hollywood parties. I listened to myself laugh and discovered that that the funniest jokes brought out the high-pitched giggle I use on the show. With further study I came to realize that it wasn`t so much how I laughed as what I laughed at that created the sense of menace."

- Frank Gorshin

I haven`t seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven`t seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

- Lawrence Kasdan

The industry is a menace to artists.

- Nikki Sixx

You know what, despite my complaints about Phantom Menace and Episode 2, when Episode 3 comes out I`ll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

- Simon Pegg

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy`s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

- Winston Churchill

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

- Hugo Chávez

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

- David Prowse

He was very anti-Communist in his appearance, ... He would always be talking about how we should be doing more stories about the Communist menace and communist influence and Russian influence.

- James Bamford

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

- Gregory Corso

Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.

- Bob Graham

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

- Dorothy Dix

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

- Paul Harris

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

- Albert Speer

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

- Al Knutson

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

- Alain de Vogue

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

- Alain Kaloyeros

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

- Alex Aguila

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

- Alexis E. Fajardo

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

- Alle Fister

Episode One: The Phantom Menace.

- Andrew West