Joan Chen Quotes

• 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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• Cuando sientes algo tan fuerte y los demás sienten lo mismo, tienes que sentirte más fuerte para tener éxito.

  Joan Chen

  Order, People, Stronger

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

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• America and China need to understand each other.

  Joan Chen

  America, Needs, China

  Fuente: thefilmexperience.net

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• Acting is actually private.

  Joan Chen

  Actuando

  "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

  Fuente: collider.com

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• It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

  Joan Chen

  Children, Sacrifice, Choices

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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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

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• It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

  Joan Chen

  Reading, Artist, Moon

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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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

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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

  Inspiración, Correr, Adolescente

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• The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

  Joan Chen

  Doors, Somewhere Else, People

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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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

  Pensar, Jugar, Gente

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

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• The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty
  otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is
  singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Suffering, Stories

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• Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other than upper body strength, I think they were equal to the men. To compensate for the lesser upper body strength they had to be smarter, they had to think more, they had to consider things more carefully.

  Joan Chen

  Fuerte, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Fuente: thefilmexperience.net

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• How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

  Joan Chen

  Drama, Kids, Thinking

  "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

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• Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

  Joan Chen

  Kids, Meat, Poverty

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

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  Joan Chen

  Fairy Tale, Moments, Tales

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

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• I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

  Joan Chen

  Niños, Pensamiento, Gente

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