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 ChenI 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.
Joan ChenIt's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.
Joan ChenAll Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
Joan ChenIt's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.
Joan Chen