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.
More Quotes from 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.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.
Joan Chen
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.
Joan Chen
I submitted the script and they gave me a list of changes to make, and I did not agree with the changes.
Joan Chen
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.
Joan Chen
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Movies Quotes, Past QuotesMan is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
Elizabeth I
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.
Clifford D. Simak