Chinese - Actress | April 26, 1961 -
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
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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.
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If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.
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How I was raised is what I am today.
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My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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