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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I'm fortunate to have success, but it was a long and challenging road, so I try to make that not be the case for other women.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time.