The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than sho... by Joan Chen

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

Joan Chen

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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.

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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.

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Acting is actually private. by Joan Chen

Acting is actually private.

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America and China need to understand each other. by Joan Chen

America and China need to understand each other.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew... by Joan Chen

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

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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

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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.

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I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything do... by Joan Chen

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens... by Joan Chen

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

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

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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.

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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.

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If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the cha... by Joan Chen

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

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