Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.
My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.
I have a lot of male friends.
It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.
I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?