A biography for Joan Chenhasn’t been written yet.
“If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.”
“How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.”
“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.”
“All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.”
“The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.”