Joan Chen

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

#better #fear #get #how #i

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

— Joan Chen

#everybody #i #looking #never #really

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

#believe #care #career #children #complete

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

#advice #asking #being #believe #general

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

— Joan Chen

#how #job #keep #know #very

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Joan Chen

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

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

— Joan Chen

#being #between #came #difference #expectation

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

— Joan Chen

#budget #films #lowest #shooting #ten

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

#before #did #doing #i #know