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










