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Joan Chen

"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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"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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"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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"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
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"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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"How I was raised is what I am today."
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"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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"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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"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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"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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