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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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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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Donna Grant

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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Donna Grant

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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Donna Grant

"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."

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Donna Grant

"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

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Donna Grant

"I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage."

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Joan Chen
"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."

Desire

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Joan Chen
"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."

Job

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

Life

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Joan Chen
"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."

People

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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 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!"

Money

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

Today

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Joan Chen
"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."

Beauty

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