Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

Tatcha is my favorite beauty brand. They were also founded in San Francisco. Their entire line is based off of geisha tradition and ritual. The line has transformed my skin.

I make video art pieces, take photographs, and dabble in acting ever since my screen test for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' with Steven Spielberg. But music is my first love and always will be my priority.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

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