I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you dont really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected…you just never know whats going to happen.

Reese Witherspoon

About being in your 20s

Get to know what many famous people think today about their 20s. It's funny, honest and even reflective.

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Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn’t believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it, is when it comes for you.

Kristen Bell

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

I’m never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Meryl Streep

20-somethings have the tendency to imagine that their 20s are the last chance they’re going to have to experiment, explore, and party. This is a false premise. Restaurants and cafes continue to let people over 29 through their doors. They even serve them alcohol.

Holden Desalles

Start your twenties with a lot of friends and leave with a few good ones. What happened? People faded away into their careers and relationships. Fights were had and never resolved. Shit happens.

Ryan O’Connell

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.

Chaka Khan

I like getting older. When you’re in your twenties you’re really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

Crispin Glover

The path to whatever your notion of success is will likely not be linear. Don’t take continuous personal growth for granted. Just because you’re older doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wiser. Your 20s will be full of failures — let them happen and learn as you go.

Holden Desalles

When you’re single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Sheena Easton

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

The thing I love most about my generation — and something that rarely gets recognized — is that we’re fucking hustlers. We make it work. We get that money. We’re innovative and resourceful. The odds may be stacked against us and yet we still find a way to triumph.

Ryan O’Connell

[S]pend your twenties learning how to mentally block out trend pieces about the importance of reaching specific life milestones in a timely fashion.

Gabrielle Moss

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven’t dealt with, it comes out. That’s why you have a lot of artists that don’t make it through.

Jeremy Sisto

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

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

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

Lena Dunham

[H]appiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Candace Bushnell

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that’s one reason you should try different relationships. I’ve had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

Cobie Smulders

I look back on my 20s. It’s supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you’re making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

Ann Brashares

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

Ben Stiller

Once I hit 25 and exited the coveted 18-24 age bracket, I was like, “Whatevs. Just wake me when I’m 30.” 26 doesn’t feel much different than 25. They seem interchangeable. They leave the same impression. Both feel very young adult.

Ryan O’Connell

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

Charlie Kaufman

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Lil' Kim

For a dreamer, night's the only time of day.

Newsies

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Annie Proulx

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

Zach Gilford

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Lynn Shelton

Thats how it always is in the entertainment industry your feet are always treading Jello.

Hedy Lamarr

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

Barack Obama

My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 or 1943, she was taken back to Auschwitz, which was just 30 miles from where she grew up. Her parents died there and a lot of her family.

Chantal Akerman

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

Kristen Stewart

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Harold Ramis

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

C. A. Bartol

Morality pertains only to the sphere of mans free will only to those actions which are open to his choice.

Ayn Rand

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

Thomas Dooley

Pearls mean tears.

Doris Lessing

Its not a nice to have its a must have. Its time we stop treating child care as a side issue or a womens issue and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

Barack Obama

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

Alan Greenspan

My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art school, and I needed to earn money, so I got a job as a stagehand at the Wimbledon Theatre, and 'Peter Pan' was on tour there with Donald Sinden, who was playing Captain Hook.

Roger Rees

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Virgil

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole

Ours is a peoples democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker peasant alliance.

Mao Zedong