Joan Chen Quotes

Joan Chen — Chinese Actress born on April 26, 1961,

Joan Chen is a Chinese-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In China she performed in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose, White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl... (wikipedia)

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.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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.