I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

