Fala Chen

“Learning is an endless process.”

“I really believe in fate and that everything happens for a reason. There's always a plan. Even things that happen to you that feel like an obstacle or a disaster in the moment will pave the way for your next step.”

“I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn't do well enough with them.”

“I get auditions for best friend, best girlfriend, a doctor who appears in one scene and tells the protagonist that he has cancer, things like that.”

“My imagination is rather limited, so it would be challenging to get roles that surprise me.”

“All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.”

“I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough - it really broke me psychologically.”

“During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for monetary reasons because winners were to get scholarships.”

“It actually takes me a few years before I can watch my own shows, and even then, it's still hard. I'll be like, 'Oh my god, that actor was so good with me in that scene, why didn't I see that and interact with him better?'”

“I'm definitely the first person who's gotten an offer in Antarctica from Marvel.”

“I was about nine or 10 when my dad moved to the U.S. to get another degree. Me and my mother moved to Atlanta to join him when I was 14.”

“I don 't know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.”

“Every time I completed an audition, I wanted to do even better.”

“No family is perfect. We all have our differences, misunderstandings, and ups and downs.”

“Sunglasses are essential for us actresses. I wear them when I don't feel like putting on make-up or when I'm out and about in strong sunlight.”

“I wasn't feeling challenged. I needed to walk away and unlearn and relearn everything.”

“I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.”

“Like most kids born in China back in the 1980s, I didn't have any siblings. I spent my childhood in Chengdu and had the privilege of being both a boy and a girl.”

“I always prefer a good script, be it a movie or drama script.”

“With the Marvel Universe, you can travel time, you can travel space. You can become different shape and form. There's so much magic in this world that I think anything can happen.”