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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
"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."
"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."
"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!"
"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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