Joan Chen

Acting is actually private.

— Joan Chen

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is,…

— Joan Chen

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was…

— Joan Chen

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones…

— Joan Chen

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we…

— Joan Chen

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company…

— Joan Chen

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

— Joan Chen

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

— Joan Chen

How I was raised is what I am today.

— Joan Chen

The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your…

— Joan Chen

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I…

— Joan Chen

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get…

— Joan Chen

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is…

— Joan Chen

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar…

— Joan Chen

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order…

— Joan Chen

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

— Joan Chen

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy.…

— Joan Chen

Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other…

— Joan Chen

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to…

— Joan Chen

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

— Joan Chen

I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after…

— Joan Chen

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people…

— Joan Chen

America and China need to understand each other.

— Joan Chen

I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning.

— Joan Chen

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of…

— Joan Chen