Quotes About Being In Your Twenties

#1. The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

David Cronenberg

#2. Clap bombs, fuck moms, wheel, snipe, and fuckin' celly boys, fuck.

Anonymous

#3. A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

Jerry Hall

#4. There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Holden

#5. I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

Henry Rollins

#6. It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.

Monica Bellucci

#7. I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#8. I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan

#9. When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

Ryan Reynolds

#10. I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

Molly Ringwald

#11. Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

Joe Budden

#12. I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

Ken Livingstone

#13. For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier.

Allan Gurganus

#14. My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.

Drew Barrymore

#15. Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today."
"Actually I have a pretty good idea.

Richelle Mead

#16. I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Leslie Mann

#17. Part of being in your twenties is not knowing an ally when you see one.

Patton Oswalt

#18. Being a single girl in New York ... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

#19. I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

David Nicholls

#20. The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Candace Bushnell

#21. We had President Obama on the show last night. I think the president enjoys visiting NBC because we're the only place that has lower numbers than he does.

Jay Leno

#22. Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

#23. When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

Anne Hathaway

#24. As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

Helen Fielding

#25. When you can't reach the standards of another's heart you must ask yourself,
What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?

Shannon L. Alder

#26. A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing

Paulo Coelho

#27. I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.

John Corey Whaley

#28. Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

Maurice Duplessis

#29. Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Robert Wilson

#30. Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Barry Diller

#31. At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

Susan Faludi

#32. Now most young people spend their twenties and thirties in another stage of life, where they go to university, start a career, and experience being an adult outside of their parents' home before marriage.

Aziz Ansari