專四晨讀美文：Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren
H: When you were 23,
that made you realize "Ok, I might get success later on"?
M: Well yes, I was very confused at the age of twenty-three,
I think the twenties a very difficult time,
actually much more difficult in your teens.
You don't know
whether your dreams are gonna come true or not.
You, suddenly reality strikes you in the face,
you've got to do with life and all its difficulties.
And I was very unhappy and confused,
and I went to a shrink first,
and that didn't work out
for various reasons that I described in the book.
So then I was told about a hand... a guy who reads hands,
so I went to this guy,
and he was a funky little old guy in the backstreet in London.
And he said "Write this down,
because you'll forget what I am going to say to you",
and he gave me sheets of paper and a pencil,
and he started, he spoke really fast.
And I wrote wrote wrote wrote wrote,
like paper after paper after paper.
And I worked out. Then I had this huge sheaf of papers.
It was absolutely right.
I could hardly remember what he said,
but my whole life as it was to be revealed
was there in these papers
and I looked at them and I thought, you know what?
I don't want to know, I don't want to know,
I want my life to be an adventure and surprise.
And I found the first rubbish bin I could find,
trash can as you say,
and I threw it into the trash can,
but I did remember one thing that he said.
And he said "You will achieve fame and fortune
but it won't happen until you're in your forties".