Twenties Quotes

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.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

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.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

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

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

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

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.

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

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

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

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

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

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

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.

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

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

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.'

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.

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.

Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.

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.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

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

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