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Joan Chen

How do you explain certain ph...

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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Joan Chen

The difference between me and...

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

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Joan Chen

Acting for me is not a bad ha...

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

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Joan Chen

There are a lot of stereotype...

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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Joan Chen

There is no theoretical study...

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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Joan Chen

Physical hunger and physical ...

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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Joan Chen

I know what actors fear, what...

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.

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Joan Chen

All Asian parents are into yo...

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

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Joan Chen

I don't find intimate scenes ...

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

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Joan Chen

I don't want to tell people w...

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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Joan Chen

When you feel so strongly abo...

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

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Joan Chen

The romantic love we feel tow...

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.

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Joan Chen

I would never offer advice wi...

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.

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Joan Chen

Beauty is the result of havin...

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.

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Joan Chen

As an actress I find the most...

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.

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Joan Chen

I remember watching Swan Lake ...

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.

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Joan Chen

Not very many companies go thr...

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.

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Joan Chen

I grew up in Honolulu. It's no...

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.

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Joan Chen

I love any opportunity to be a...

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.

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Joan Chen

Since my mom is the President ...

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

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