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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."
"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."
"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
"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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