Joan Chen Quotes

"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
-Joan Chen

"There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires."
-Joan Chen

"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
-Joan Chen

"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."
-Joan Chen

"To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment."
-Joan Chen

"I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one."
-Joan Chen

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."
-Joan Chen

"I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be."
-Joan Chen