115 Quotes by Joan Chen

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

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.

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.

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.

How I was raised is what I am today.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

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.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.