Twenties Quotes

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
Clint Eastwood

Dating, Someone, Nothing

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Bill Gates

Off, Less, Took

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Parents, Country, Speak

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'
Jude Law

Older, Less, Pressure

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.
Demetri Martin

Again, Progress, Since

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
Lena Dunham

Time, Positive, Playing

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
Shirley MacLaine

Together, Made, Friends

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.
Sienna Miller

Pretty, Anyone, Public

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
Lena Dunham

Romantic, Someone, Until

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert

Wanted, Concerned, Majority

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.
Rashida Jones

Mistakes, Friends, Guys

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.
Rashida Jones

Good, Nice, Bad

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.
Katherine Heigl

Less, Confident

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
Kim Cattrall

Women, Strong, Mind

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
Antonio Banderas

Women, End, Someone

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
Lena Dunham

Accept, Lives, Times

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Husband, Living, American

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben

Mother, Wanted, Story

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
James Cagney

Best, War, Today

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
Janet Jackson

Time, Hard, Find

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
George Michael

Kids, Face, Late

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.
Sloane Crosley

Life, Emotional, End

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
Paul Theroux

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
Donny Osmond

Cool, Today, Trying

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Ian Somerhalder

Interest, Decades, Roaring

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
Mike Huckabee

Marriage, Parents, Lost

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Theodore Sturgeon

Society, Medical, Problem

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Paul Getty

Great, American, Prosperity

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.
Matthew Rhys

Game, Down, Thought

I started going gray in my early twenties.
Matt LeBlanc

Started, Early, Gray

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