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"I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious"

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There’s a small, almost rebellious elegance to calling yourself “agreeable” in an era that rewards spectacle: the public meltdown, the tortured genius, the star who’s too fragile for ordinary life. Adjani, a performer long mythologized for intensity, offers something cooler and more deliberate: a portrait of temperament as craft. “Busy” isn’t just schedule-bragging; it’s a quiet claim to agency. Work becomes insulation against the noise that follows famous women, especially actresses whose personal lives are treated as public property.

“Enthusiastic” lands like a correction. For decades, female ambition has been coded as hunger, desperation, or vanity. Enthusiasm reframes drive as joy, not need. It’s also a strategic vulnerability: the kind that reads warm without surrendering power. Then “curious” opens the most interesting door. Curiosity suggests she’s still porous to the world, still learning, still taking risks. It’s a refusal of the museum-glass narrative that aging actresses often get shoved behind: either revered as icons or dismissed as past-tense.

The triad works because it’s sequential and self-protective. Busy grounds her, enthusiastic animates her, curious keeps her from calcifying. Underneath is a performer managing the pressures of image by insisting on inner weather. Not drama, not tragedy, not even triumph. Just a steady, chosen momentum. In celebrity culture, that’s its own kind of provocation.

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Adjani, Isabelle. (2026, January 15). I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-in-an-agreeable-state-busy-enthusiastic-curious-146241/

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Adjani, Isabelle. "I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-in-an-agreeable-state-busy-enthusiastic-curious-146241/.

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"I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-in-an-agreeable-state-busy-enthusiastic-curious-146241/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is a Actress from France.

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