Michelle Dockery: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of 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.

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Michelle Dockery

British actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2020 source ↗

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Jennifer Hudson American singer and actress

I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2018 source ↗

Harriet Walter English actress

I would never have gone on a diet. I would go back with the knowledge that not being perfect is fine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗

Adam Clayton

A few haircuts.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗

Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.

Recorded His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999 source ↗