Joan Chen Acting Quotations

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.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

Having been an actress was also good because I know how to talk to the actors. I know what comes through and what doesn't and often times I've worked with a director whose directions I knew I'd just better not try to listen to because it messes you up. So, having had an acting background really helped.

The acting in China is very stylized and dramatic, and I was just me.

I sort of stopped acting for about five or six years. I was at this awkward age. I felt that now that I am no longer young, my acting career is over. And so I sort of put myself in the wine cellar and I aged for like five, six years and now I'm uncorked and it was pretty good. It was the right taste.

Acting is actually private.