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Joan Chen

"Acting is actually private."

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Joan Chen
"How I was raised is what I am today."

Today

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

Life

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

Love

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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."

Mother

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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."

Hunger

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

People

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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."

Fear

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

Acting

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Joan Chen
"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."

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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

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Aberjhani

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

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Aberjhani

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Aberjhani

"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."

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Aberjhani

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Aberjhani

"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."

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Aberjhani

"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."

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Aberjhani

"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

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Aberjhani

"Acting is very start and stop."

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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."

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