Fala Chen Quotes

Fala Chen

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 24, 1982

Sunglasses are not only for functional use but also necessary for complementing your whole look.

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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.

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Learning is an endless process.

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The audition process is like playing games at times, where you have to pass many levels. Sometimes, you could pass the contract negotiation level, but in the end, the producer may decide to use a different actor instead.

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

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I think I'm pretty put-together.

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In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

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I ride a bicycle to school every morning.

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I have problems with the trigeminal nerves, which may be triggered by stress and tension.

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As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

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Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.

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I've always been kind of lost.

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Somehow, I feel even more lost when I work with experienced veteran stars. It makes me wonder what is the meaning of my job. Am I here to pursue my personal satisfaction, or to entertain people?

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

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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.

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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.

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When I was a teenager in Georgia I always felt like the odd one. I never felt like I fit in.

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My dad and I would go to Blockbuster and look for Asian films and we could never find any. If we saw a Jackie Chan movie we would watch that because it was so comforting to see a face similar to ours.

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America has taken small baby steps of progress towards having more inclusion and diversity in Hollywood. It's optimistic.

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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.

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