Helen Mirren Gets Real About Learning From Mistakes

Helen Mirren opens up about making mistakes, learning from them, and moving forward—one day at a time.

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00:00There are endless things I'd do differently, but I didn't, so I live with what I've done.

00:07And tomorrow I'll make 10, you know, 15 mistakes and I'll have to live with them.

00:13Hopefully you learn from your mistakes, you learn from other people's mistakes a lot,

00:19and you learn from other people's decency and goodness and humility and niceness.

00:25I don't think of it as a particular time in my life. It's just my life continuing on sort of thing,

00:34you know. I mean, I have to say the last five months have been pretty intense, but

00:42and at the beginning of it, I thought, I don't know if I'm ever going to get through that, but

00:46I have this attitude, which is you just take one day at a time. Just get through today and tomorrow

00:52will take care of itself. And so that's sort of my general approach.