Joan Chen Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Joan Chen

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

  Joan Chen

• 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

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

  Joan Chen

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

  Joan Chen

• 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

• I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don’t believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don’t feel complete.

  Joan Chen

• I never went on an audition – when they were really looking at everybody.

  Joan Chen

• 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

• 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

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

  Joan Chen

• How I was raised is what I am today.

  Joan Chen

• 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

• 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

• 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

Joan Chen (25)

Birth:	26th April, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Joan Chen was born in Shanghai, China. She is a Chinese-born American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She studied at Shanghai International Studies University and California State University, Northridge. Her role in several films include: Little Flower (Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, Yugoslavia Film Festival Award for Best Actress), Tai-Pan, The Last Emperor, Wedlock, Turtle Beach, Red Rose White Rose (Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress), The Hunted, Wild Side, Purple Storm, Avatar, The Home Song Stories (Golden Horse Award for Best Actress), The Sun Also Rises, 24 City, Love in Disguise, White Frog, For Love or Money, and Lady of the Dynasty. Her role in television include: Twin Peaks (TV series), Strangers (TV film), Serangoon Road (TV series), and Marco Polo (TV series). She directed several films, including Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (also producer and screenwriter, Golden Horse Award for Best Director and Screenplay), and Autumn in New York.

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