Joan Chen Took Quotations

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.

I wish when I was younger, I took my career more seriously. I wasn't. I was just, like, having a good time.

I wasn't good enough to be a waitress. I was a receptionist and I only took down takeouts. Every day there was some mistake I made.

I wanted to do pre-med. The first semester it really didn't matter because you took a lot of general education requirements. But right after the first semester I kind of knew I wasn't cut out for that. I had very good grades but I somehow wasn't satisfied. Just having good grades and having it all go to medical school didn't make me happy.

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