Joan Chen

Actress

1961-04-26

Quotes by Joan Chen

• 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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• 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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• All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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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.

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

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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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