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. - Joan Chen

You have to say, I will wither if I don't do it, I'll die if I don't do it. It has to be that big of a determination, that much of a need. - Joan Chen

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

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

When I stayed with a bunch of herding girls-young intellectuals sent down to herd military horses-they taught me how to take warm baths. - Joan Chen

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

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

Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them. - 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 only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires. - Joan Chen

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