Early 20s Quotes

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla

Good, Money, Nice

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
Richard Gere

Men, Happy, Young

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.
Sharon Stone

Nice, Worry, Few

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
Geoffrey Rush

Attitude, Country, Before

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'
Lev Grossman

Family, Long, Dark

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy

Mother, Deep, Put

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.
Jonah Hill

Strong, Career, Public

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
Wallace Shawn

Life, Politics, History

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
Mariska Hargitay

Women, Alone, Nice

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.
Tom Jones

Character, Long, Enough

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
Eric McCormack

Happen, Working, Show

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.
Cheryl James

Life, Mom, Care

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Jeremy Piven

Work, Done, Since

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
Neal Schon

Music, Sports, Career

The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
Zosia Mamet

Fear, Able, Makes

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
Lizzy Caplan

Family, Away, Once

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Almost, Early, Shopping

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
Gary Miller

Business, Early, General

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Patrick Marber

Life, Love, Time

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
Callie Khouri

Times, Face, Movie

I came to Christ in my early 20s.
Karen Kingsbury

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
Linwood Barclay

Book, Problem, Wanted

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.
Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Head, Early, Bent

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
Ian McShane

Yourself, Judge, Hard

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
Karen Bass

Both, Early, Earned

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