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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."

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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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"Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career."

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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."

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"I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me."

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

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

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"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."

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"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."

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"I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting."

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"Acting is what happens on the way."

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"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."

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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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"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
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"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
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"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."
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"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!"
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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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"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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"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
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"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."
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