Joan Chen Quotes
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If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.
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When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
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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.
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I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.
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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 know how to make just light entertainment.
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If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.
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Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.
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Acting is actually private.
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Since age 14, 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.
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In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.
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I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.
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I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
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I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.
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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.
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How I was raised is what I am today.
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I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.
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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.
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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
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Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other than upper body strength, I think they were equal to the men. To compensate for the lesser upper body strength they had to be smarter, they had to think more, they had to consider things more carefully.
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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.
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America and China need to understand each other.
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I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.
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It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.
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The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).
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I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.
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Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.
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I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.
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I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.
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I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
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I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.
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