“It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for a Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings, she entertains you. Whatever you want; the rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“- Freddie Miles: Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?
- Dickie Greenleaf: Just once?”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Freddie Miles
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“- Nick Starkey: Ed, I think it'd be best if you don't come in the apartment.
- Ed: You got it. I'm an artist. I'll watch the woman.”

Kevin Kline - Nick Starkey
Alan Rickman - Ed

“- Agent 23: See, this is your problem, some men like women who are feminine!
- Agent 99: What, I'm not feminine?
- Agent 23: No.”
The Rock - Agent 23
Anne Hathaway - Agent 99