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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."
"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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."
"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."
"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."
"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."
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
"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."
"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."
"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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