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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• 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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• I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

  Joan Chen

  Missing, Stories, Dialogue

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

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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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• 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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• Acting is actually private.

  Joan Chen

  Acting

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

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• I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

  Joan Chen

  Dancer, Competition, Ballet

  Source: collider.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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• How I was raised is what I am today.

  Joan Chen

  Today, Raised

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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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• 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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• 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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• Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

  Joan Chen

  San Francisco, Ballet, Way

  Source: collider.com

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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 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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• I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

  Joan Chen

  Imagination, People, Ballet

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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