People Will Money 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! - Joan Chen
People When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed. - Joan Chen
Movies Past Years For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies. - Joan Chen
Acting Want 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. - Joan Chen
Acting Job All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. - Joan Chen
Beauty End 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. - Joan Chen
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. - Henrik Ibsen
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. - Rem Koolhaas
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. - Vincent Schiavelli
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer