Nigel Havers: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Nigel Havers said elsewhere, not written here

Nothing at all.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗

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I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2024 source ↗

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I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗

Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar

But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.

Recorded Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995 source ↗

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