Top 80 Early 20s Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Early 20s Quotes from famous people such as Lizzy Caplan, Patrick Marber, Daisy Ridley, Rita Moreno, Mary Lou Jepsen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summ

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
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
Rey’s parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she’s late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there’s a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that’s lovely.
Daisy Ridley
When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn’t see them in the films that I did.
Rita Moreno
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn’t date much, really – perhaps because I didn’t have many hormones, though I didn’t know that at the time.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
Lily Allen
Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, ‘That’s cool, whatever.’ But now, that’s what I’m most appreciative of.
Daniel Ricciardo
In my early 20s, I didn’t even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Rachael Harris
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool – how it keeps you cool when you’re hot, warm when you’re cold, dry when you’re wet.
Anthony Doerr
I always wanted to be independent. I worked at a few odd jobs as a teen and, when I was in my early 20s, I soon realised that I disliked unfair bosses. I knew I was disciplined and motivated, and that I would work best when I was self-employed.
Lisa Haydon
During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham’s son to be. I’m so thankful he never gave up on me or quit loving me.
Franklin Graham
I’ve been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.
Kurt Sutter
I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
Magdi Yacoub
I’ve heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you’re transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it’s like you’re responsible now.
Dan Byrd
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
People in their early 20s would not be embarrassed to be completely dedicated to their significant others and would have such a passionate relationship.
Gong Hyo-jin
I remember being in Vietnam in my early 20s, at the height of Lonely Planet’s fame, and all the travellers would converge on internet cafes to send emails back home. It was a great place to exchange tips and recommendations, so you actually interacted with people.
Konnie Huq
When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy – guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it’s all about how I feel internally.
Sarah Shahi
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn’t really go back. So the irony is I’ve spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I’ve shot films in Belfast, where he’s from. And I’ve shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I’ve shot in Dublin.
Imogen Poots
I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn’t invent the word ‘crip’. It’s a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
Stella Young
I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn’t the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.
Steven Berkoff
In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.
Anastasia Soare
I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, ‘I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.’
John Mackey
In my early 20s, there was a period when all I owned was about a dozen CDs and a crappy Discman. I’d listen to ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ album endlessly as I sat on off-peak trains jerking around the Sussex countryside to and from the asylum I worked in.
Frankie Boyle
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
The video for ‘Whatever’ is kind of a documentary in a way. It’s showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There’s an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It’s not true.
Jill Scott
I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.
Tan France
When I read ‘Another Country’ when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, ‘I will never be able to write a book like this.’ And my second thought was, ‘I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.’
Jess Row
In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved the Highwaymen. I collected all that stuff.
Stephen Dorff
It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was 20. When the Queen and the Duke were in their early 20s, it’s around 1940. Their values are the values of Britain in 1940; all that is best of Britain in 1940 is exemplified by the Duke.
Gyles Brandreth
The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not spec

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
You start off interested in variety and then it’s always about bigger fish, bigger fish and I became fairly obsessive, I think, in my late teens and early 20s.
Jeremy Wade
From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.
Kirsten Powers
I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early ’20s in the ’80s. It was just a happening time to be around.
Paul Young
When you’re in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it’s very hard to judge yourself.
Ian McShane
I’m in L.A., I’m in my early 20s, and I’m like, ‘There are so many pretty girls here! Let’s Marvin Gaye and get it on!’
Charlie Puth
In the early ’20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.
Michelle Dockery
I made a really stupid promise to my husband in my early 20s, when he and I were first going out, that I would retire as a jockey when I was 40.
Dido Harding
Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje – these are all old friends from my early 20s.
Clark Blaise
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
I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.
Shannon Lee
Looking back, I feel very fortunate to have had such a long career. Many skaters end their careers in their early 20s. I had the opportunity to go to two Olympic Games – almost three after being the alternate in 1994 and then in 2006 being injured.
Michelle Kwan
The early ’20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.
Sarah Waters
My parents divorced when I was in my early 20s and have both happily remarried, so I have a large extended family.
Lucy Worsley
If you’re in your early 20s and you’re hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real ‘workers’ run into every day. They’re running into a completely different set of problems like ‘What’s the party going on right now that I should be going to?’
Aaron Levie
In my late teens and early 20s, I started selling mix CDs on the street.
Flo Rida
We did three records in three years and I don’t know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.
Charlotte Caffey
I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I’ve always said that I was late to acting because I didn’t really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
Mahershala Ali