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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

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I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

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I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

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Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

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If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

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How I was raised is what I am today.

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My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

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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.

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I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Actress

Born: April 26th, 1961

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