--- title: Tulane University: Read Dame Helen Mirren's Remarks description: Dame Helen Mirren gave the commencement speech at Tulane's graduation ceremony, encouraging grads to embrace the future and take risks canonical: https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-21T16:44:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:02:17.851Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Read Dame Helen Mirren's Remarks at Tulane University og:description: "No good can ever come from tweeting at 3 a.m.” og:url: https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38adc34eefb80145/6988a3438e0601390b46739b/helen-mirren-sexist-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Eye In The Sky" - UK Premiere - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Dame Helen Mirren's Remarks at Tulane University twitter:description: "No good can ever come from tweeting at 3 a.m.” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38adc34eefb80145/6988a3438e0601390b46739b/helen-mirren-sexist-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Helen Mirren at Tulane University: 'We’re All in This Together' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 21, 2017 4:44 PM UTC  Helen Mirren arrives for the UK premiere of "Eye In The Sky" at Curzon Mayfair on April 11, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Helen Mirren arrives for the UK premiere of "Eye In The Sky" at Curzon Mayfair on April 11, 2016 in London, United Kingdom.Karwai Tang—WireImage/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 21, 2017 4:44 PM UTC _Dame Helen Mirren was the commencement speaker at Tulane University on Saturday. See her prepared remarks below._ --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/"},"headline":"Helen Mirren at Tulane University: 'We’re All in This Together'","datePublished":"2017-05-21T16:44:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:02:17.851Z","description":"\"Don't be afraid of fear\"","url":"https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/","keywords":["Education","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38adc34eefb80145/6988a3438e0601390b46739b/helen-mirren-sexist-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38adc34eefb80145/6988a3438e0601390b46739b/helen-mirren-sexist-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Eye In The Sky\" - UK Premiere - Red Carpet","caption":"\"Eye In The Sky\" - UK Premiere - Red Carpet","creditText":"Karwai Tang—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4787502/helen-mirren-speech-tulane-university-commencement-graduation-2017/","name":"Helen Mirren at Tulane University: 'We’re All in This Together'"}}]}] ```