Joan Chen Quotes

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.

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Great
  • Support
  • Going

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Emotions

• There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Having children with someone is the real bond.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Children
  • Real
  • Parenting

• I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Care
  • Criticism

• The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Believe
  • History

• The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Why
  • Reason

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Time
  • Best
  • Same

• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Nice
  • Successful
  • Odds

• Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Military
  • Choose
  • Circumstances

• 'Love lives forever.'

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Forever

• You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Water

• As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.

  

  Shari Arison
  • World
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• 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