Joan Chen Quotes

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• There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

  Joan Chen

  People, Way, Making Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

  Joan Chen

  Girl, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

  Joan Chen

  Order, People, Stronger

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Acting is actually private.

  Joan Chen

  Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

  Joan Chen

  Jobs, Wells, Know How

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

  Joan Chen

  Summer, Couple, School

  Source: collider.com

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• If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

  Joan Chen

  Character, Costumes, Helping

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

  Joan Chen

  Differences, Expectations, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How I was raised is what I am today.

  Joan Chen

  Today, Raised

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• I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

  Joan Chen

  Believe, Giving, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

  Joan Chen

  Acting, Awful, Costumes

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

  Joan Chen

  Happiness, Sex, Romantic Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

  Joan Chen

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  "Joan Chen — Saving Face". Groucho Reviews Interview, grouchoreviews.com. March 11, 2005.

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• All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

  Joan Chen

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning.

  Joan Chen

  Morning, Done, Process

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

  Joan Chen

  Age, Actors, Know How

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• There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be
  great.

  Joan Chen

  Frustrated, Bad Movies

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• In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

  Joan Chen

  Interesting, Age, Female

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

  Joan Chen

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

  Joan Chen

  Marijuana, Effort, Smoking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

  Joan Chen

  Shooting, Film, Lowest

  "INTERVIEW: A Long Way from Twin Peaks, Joan Chen Gets Sent Down for 'Xiu-Xiu'". Interview with Augusta Palmer, www.indiewire.com. May 6, 1999.

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• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  Joan Chen

  Acting, Want, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

  Joan Chen

  Scene, Intimate, Difficult

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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