Joan Chen Quotes

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.

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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

desire teenagers run

There are only so many roles as empresses.. But I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

vampires play

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.

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Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them.

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How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it.. Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

people

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

money people

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

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