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You want actors to give you the essence of drama-not only the gift of their instincts and knowledge but the greater gift of themselves. When that happens, it's gold-and when you want to catch that, you don't go through all sorts of fancy camera movements to play director. - Joan Chen Quotes

You want actors to give you the essence of drama-not only the gift of their instincts and knowledge but the greater gift of themselves. When that happens, it's gold-and when you want to catch that, you don't go through all sorts of fancy camera movements to play director.

I'm being more selective. I don't think I've made any sacrifices or anything. - Joan Chen Quotes

I'm being more selective. I don't think I've made any sacrifices or anything.

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress God

I'm angry about stereotypes about Asians, but I'm not bitter about not getting enough roles. I do see myself as being very fortunate, and see the change in the industry. - Joan Chen Quotes

I'm angry about stereotypes about Asians, but I'm not bitter about not getting enough roles. I do see myself as being very fortunate, and see the change in the industry.

If my publicist says you have to be a certain way, I say, Yeah, okay. That's the way the public likes to perceive me. It's all fine, that's part of the business. - Joan Chen Quotes

If my publicist says you have to be a certain way, I say, Yeah, okay. That's the way the public likes to perceive me. It's all fine, that's part of the business.

I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be. - Joan Chen Quotes

I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be.

I submitted the script and they gave me a list of changes to make, and I did not agree with the changes. - Joan Chen Quotes

I submitted the script and they gave me a list of changes to make, and I did not agree with the changes.

Having been an actress was also good because I know how to talk to the actors. I know what comes through and what doesn't and often times I've worked with a director whose directions I knew I'd just better not try to listen to because it messes you up. So, having had an acting background really helped. - Joan Chen Quotes

Having been an actress was also good because I know how to talk to the actors. I know what comes through and what doesn't and often times I've worked with a director whose directions I knew I'd just better not try to listen to because it messes you up. So, having had an acting background really helped.

Acting And Actors

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet. - Joan Chen Quotes

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

Budget Chinese Actress

I wanted to do pre-med. The first semester it really didn't matter because you took a lot of general education requirements. But right after the first semester I kind of knew I wasn't cut out for that. I had very good grades but I somehow wasn't satisfied. Just having good grades and having it all go to medical school didn't make me happy. - Joan Chen Quotes

I wanted to do pre-med. The first semester it really didn't matter because you took a lot of general education requirements. But right after the first semester I kind of knew I wasn't cut out for that. I had very good grades but I somehow wasn't satisfied. Just having good grades and having it all go to medical school didn't make me happy.

I think a good sign is when you don't go to bed with people right away. I think you treasure it more. A lot of people, one date or third date or fourth date, you gotta go to bed. It's silly. - Joan Chen Quotes

I think a good sign is when you don't go to bed with people right away. I think you treasure it more. A lot of people, one date or third date or fourth date, you gotta go to bed. It's silly.

Bed

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress Mother

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes. - Joan Chen Quotes

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

Chinese Actress

The army was a desirable place to be. It offered a more disciplined life than the countryside. - Joan Chen Quotes

The army was a desirable place to be. It offered a more disciplined life than the countryside.

Army

Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them. - Joan Chen Quotes

Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. - Joan Chen Quotes

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

Chinese Actress

I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one. - Joan Chen Quotes

I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. - Joan Chen Quotes

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Chinese Actress

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it. - Joan Chen Quotes

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

Chinese Actress Job

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires. - Joan Chen Quotes

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment. - Joan Chen Quotes

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment.

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress

Both my parents are very hard-working, very caring, studious people. They take their profession very very seriously. Especially in China, there is not much of a reward other than saving lives. So I have a very very high respect for the profession of medicine. That could be a subconscious reason. - Joan Chen Quotes

Both my parents are very hard-working, very caring, studious people. They take their profession very very seriously. Especially in China, there is not much of a reward other than saving lives. So I have a very very high respect for the profession of medicine. That could be a subconscious reason.

I won't waste people's time. I won't bitch. I won't complain because I understand how hard it is by being a director. So it's all good. - Joan Chen Quotes

I won't waste people's time. I won't bitch. I won't complain because I understand how hard it is by being a director. So it's all good.

I'm going back to work in China. Chinese movies are getting very very strong now. I'm going back in December to work on a movie based on a classical novel. I play a woman who loves decadence. - Joan Chen Quotes

I'm going back to work in China. Chinese movies are getting very very strong now. I'm going back in December to work on a movie based on a classical novel. I play a woman who loves decadence.

If you don't talk about any commitment or a shared future in three months, I don't think you're sincere. - Joan Chen Quotes

If you don't talk about any commitment or a shared future in three months, I don't think you're sincere.

I did somehow manage to get into a college in China that trains diplomats when I was 17, one year before my peers could go, which is very very difficult. I was very proud I did. - Joan Chen Quotes

I did somehow manage to get into a college in China that trains diplomats when I was 17, one year before my peers could go, which is very very difficult. I was very proud I did.

How I was raised is what I am today. - Joan Chen Quotes

How I was raised is what I am today.

Chinese Actress

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat. - Joan Chen Quotes

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

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 Quotes

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

Chinese Actress

The mainstream welcomes kung fu films - martial art films, right? So that's one type of Chinese-ness that's welcome. - Joan Chen Quotes

The mainstream welcomes kung fu films - martial art films, right? So that's one type of Chinese-ness that's welcome.

All my girlfriends were learning musical instruments - forced to learn musical instruments because if they knew a musical instrument, they would be in the performance troupe. Even if they were sent down. Then they wouldn't be in the fields. Then they'd probably be treated a little better. That was the hope. - Joan Chen Quotes

All my girlfriends were learning musical instruments - forced to learn musical instruments because if they knew a musical instrument, they would be in the performance troupe. Even if they were sent down. Then they wouldn't be in the fields. Then they'd probably be treated a little better. That was the hope.

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress

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 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.

Chinese Actress People

There are a few stories that I like, but I don't know how to approach them because there's no part for me-just books I read. - Joan Chen Quotes

There are a few stories that I like, but I don't know how to approach them because there's no part for me-just books I read.

I don't believe beauty exists without suffering-that's just a tourist picture in a travel agency, which isn't beautiful to me. - Joan Chen Quotes

I don't believe beauty exists without suffering-that's just a tourist picture in a travel agency, which isn't beautiful to me.

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

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

Chinese Actress Expectation

From the age of 14 I was on the set all the time and worked with a lot of people. - Joan Chen Quotes

From the age of 14 I was on the set all the time and worked with a lot of people.

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 Quotes

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.

Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people. - Joan Chen Quotes

Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people.

We were so up high that we were really close to heaven, and that does render greater meaning to life. - Joan Chen Quotes

We were so up high that we were really close to heaven, and that does render greater meaning to life.

The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine. - Joan Chen Quotes

The factory that I work with, all the products are on the shelf, they are existing products. I can go and enhance it. The perfume is 60% mine.

Work

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great. - Joan Chen Quotes

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

Movie

I won't ever encourage this temptress to grow. I don't give her any opportunity in my life, but I'm sure it's there. I understand her. - Joan Chen Quotes

I won't ever encourage this temptress to grow. I don't give her any opportunity in my life, but I'm sure it's there. I understand her.

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress

And in Chinese language, there is a saying about children and mother. It's like, uh, you're 10 fingers to your heart, as if there is distance there, but if you chop your hand, it hurts like hell. This is the connection. And there is not another bond that's stronger. This is the strongest bond ever! - Joan Chen Quotes

And in Chinese language, there is a saying about children and mother. It's like, uh, you're 10 fingers to your heart, as if there is distance there, but if you chop your hand, it hurts like hell. This is the connection. And there is not another bond that's stronger. This is the strongest bond ever!

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 Quotes

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.

Chinese Actress

In a way, I think I made a more aesthetic choice than a political one, but politics was so part of my everyday life when I was growing up, ... I guess that was inevitable, but it was in our upbringing and education that no beauty can be achieved without suffering. - Joan Chen Quotes

In a way, I think I made a more aesthetic choice than a political one, but politics was so part of my everyday life when I was growing up, ... I guess that was inevitable, but it was in our upbringing and education that no beauty can be achieved without suffering.

When I was younger, I struggled against, you know, I don't want to be pigeon-holed. And I, you know - Basically, now you want to be pigeon-holed. It's your niche. - Joan Chen Quotes

When I was younger, I struggled against, you know, I don't want to be pigeon-holed. And I, you know - Basically, now you want to be pigeon-holed. It's your niche.

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