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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."
Explore more quotes by Joan Chen
"For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies."
"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!"
"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."
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