Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
More Quotes by Joan Chen
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
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 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.
The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.
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.