Joan Chen
FameRank: 4

"Best Actress"1995 Red Rose, White Rose

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/ hundredflowersawards = "Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress/Best Actress"

1980 Little Flower

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/ awards = "Paris Film Festival Special Jury Prize"1999 Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl"National Board of Review Awards 1999/NBR International Freedom Award"1999 Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl"Inside Film Awards/IF Award for Best Actress"2007 The Home Song Stories"Torino Film Festival Award for Best Actress"2007 The Home Song Stories"Australian Film Institute Awards/AFI Award for Best Actress"2007 The Home Song Stories"Asian Film Awards/AF Award for Best Supporting Actress"2008 The Sun Also Rises (2007 film)/The Sun Also Rises

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

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

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

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment.

I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one.

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.

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.