115 quotes found
"A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile; without its mysteries it cannot survive."
"At the temple, there is a poem called "Loss", carved into the stone. It has three words...but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read "Loss"... Only feel it."
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves... Until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
"It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for 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."
"My mother always said my sister Satsu was like wood; as rooted to the earth as a sakura tree. But she told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone...and when trapped, water makes a new path..."
"Your honorable sister says, "Cut your leg," you cut your leg. She says, "Follow me," you follow her. My life had turned into a game, and only she knew the rules."
"A year without news, except news of death. Rumors of cities evaporating into clouds of smoke. And then another year, and another. Nothing. Rice...work...rice...work. Nothing."
"I could be her. Were we so different? She loved once. She hoped once. I might be looking into my own future. Until the real future came falling from the air... [referring to the war]"
"Now I understood the thing I´d overlooked; the point wasn't to become a geisha but to be one. To become a geisha...well, that was hardly a purpose in life. But to be a geisha... I could see it now as a stepping-stone to something else."
"To a man, Geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet to learn of kindness, after so much unkindness... To understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find that her prayers were answered...can that not be called happiness? After all, these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind."
"Remember Chiyo, geisha are not courtesans, and we're not wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty. The very word "geisha" means artist, and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art."
"You cannot call yourself a true geisha until you can stop a man in his tracks with a single look."
"We don't become geisha to pursue our own destinies. We become geisha because we have no choice."
"No man would ever bid so much for a thing he had already taken."
"Water is always in such a hurry. Perhaps it is just as well - we have no time to lose."
"None of us find as much kindness in this life, as we should."
"[When he first meets Chiyo by the river] Where did you come by such surprising eyes?"
"Smile for me, won't you?"
"I owe Nobu my life. So, when I saw he had a chance at happiness with you, I stood aside and... But I cannot any longer. I hope it is not too late."
"Three things matter in life... sumo, business, and war. Understand one, you know them all. But why should a Geisha care? You spend your time plucking strings and dancing."
"I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have."
"Not every geisha uses that kind of currency."
"I humbly beg to differ. What is sumo but a dance between giants? What is business but a dance between companies? I would like to know about every kind of dance."
"I see now why you like Sumo, you can never judge a man's power by his appearance alone."
"I want a life that is mine!"
"Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge has been to bring myself closer to you."
"Besides, who wants a plum when someone has already had a bite?"
"A pity she still stinks of fish."
"Why can't you be quiet?"
"Stay out of my room. I can't have you touching my things."
"I can just hear my General now. "Why Hatsumomo. You used to smell of jasmine... What's this new perfume...? Blowfish?""
"At least you don't smell as bad as your sister. You know, she was here."
"You're just jealous somebody cares for me!"
"It's that kimono. She remembers how you destroyed it. Now, she wants to get even."
"I shall destroy you."
"Why Sayuri...look what I found. You've been hiding your love for a long time... The sacrifice every geisha must make!"
"[as Mother mocks her relationship with Koichi, about to call her a common prostitute] Don't say it!"
"Doctor is very expensive. You seem to be racking up quite a debt. Kimono, destroyed. Geisha school, rice and pickles, train ticket, Mr. Bekku, all of this, on top of the money I paid Mr. Tanaka. And for what? And now I hear your sister has run away! She didn't wait for you, and now she can never come back. You must forget you ever had a sister. We are your only family now."
"These country girls. Too late to send her back now."
"[To Hatsumomo] Don't exaggerate! You have never even found a danna. You chose that no-good Koichi. Sneaking through your window at all hours of the night. Not like a geisha, like a common prostitute."
"[On the phone] Do you think I am a sucker?"
"Hurry up! [chuckling] You're not making money standing there gawking at yourself!"
"Only reason Mother tolerates Hatsumomo is because she brings in good money. Never forget, it is Hatsumomo who pays for your supper, the clothes on your back. By the time she was twenty, she had already earned back her purchase price! Unheard of! She has been the talk of the hanamachi ever since."
"Geisha needs an elegant wardrobe, just like an artist needs ink. If she is not properly dressed, then she is not a true geisha."
"[Sparking flint behind Sayuri] For luck!"
"Zhang Ziyi - Sayuri"
"Suzuka Ohgo - Chiyo (Sayuri as a young girl)"
"Shizuko Hoshi - Narrator (Sayuri as an elderly woman, voice only)"
"Michelle Yeoh - Mameha"
"Ken Watanabe - Chairman Iwamura"
"Kôji Yakusho - President Nobu"
"Anck-es-en-Amon, my love has lasted longer than the temples of our gods. No man ever suffered as I did for you. But the rest you may not know. Not until you are about to pass through the great night of terror and triumph. Until you are ready to face moments of horror for an eternity of love."
"[to Helen Grosvenor dressed as his beloved Princess Anck-es-en-Amon] It was not only this body I loved, it was thy soul. I destroy this lifeless thing! Thou shall take its place but for a few moments and then... RISE again, even as I have risen!"
"You will not remember what I show you now, and yet I shall awaken memories of love... and crime... and death..."
"I loved you once, but now you belong with the dead. I am Anck-es-en-Amon, but I... I'm somebody else, too. I want to live, even in this strange new world."
"Burn the scroll, man. Burn it! It was through you this horror came into existence."
"If I could get my hands on you, I'd break your dried flesh to pieces!"
"I think with all the technology today, kids wouldn't buy [a mummy wrapped in bandages]. That's sort of one of the things about the first Mummy movies that always amazed me. Looking back on them now, why were people scared of the mummy? Surely, you could just run away from this guy that's walking around the neighborhood in pajamas and bandages. It'd be easy just to run away from him, so we have to hype it up a bit and create a whole new mummy."
"Boris Karloff - Ardeth Bey / Imhotep / The Mummy"
"Zita Johann - Helen Grosvenor / Princess Ankh-esen-amun"
"David Manners - Frank Whemple"
"Arthur Byron - Sir Joseph Whemple"
"Edward Van Sloan - Dr. Muller"
"Bramwell Fletcher - Ralph Norton"
"Noble Johnson - The Nubian"
"Kathryn Byron - Frau Muller"
"Leonard Mudie - Professor Pearson"
"James Crane - Pharaoh Amenophis"
"Henry Victor - The Saxon Warrior"
"If I am King, where is my power? Can I form a government? Levy a tax? Declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority because they think that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak."
"Is the nation ready for two minutes of radio silence?"
"Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait."
"We're not a family, we're a firm."
"In this grave... hour... perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send... to every household of my... a-peoples, both at home... and overseas... this message... spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross... your threshold and speak to you... myself. For the second time in the lives of most of us, we are at... at war. Over and over again, we have tried to find... a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now... our enemies. But it has been... in vain. We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle, which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilised order... in the world. Such a principle, stripped of all... disguise, is surely the mere... primitive doctrine that might... is right. For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet... the challenge. It is to this... high purpose that I now... call my people, at home, and my people across... the seas, who will make our cause their own. I ask them to stand calm, and firm, and united in this time of trial. The task will be hard. There may be dark days ahead, and war... can no longer be... confined... to the battlefield. But we can only do the right... as we see the right, and reverently... commit our cause... to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful... to it, then... with God's help, we shall... prevail."
"[to Winston Churchill, on the hold that Wallis Simpson seems to have on Edward VIII] Apparently she has certain skills - acquired at an establishment in Shanghai."
"[to Bertie] You know, I refused your first two marriage proposals not because I didn't love you, but because I couldn't bear the idea of a royal life. Couldn't bear the idea of a life of tours, duty, and... well, a life that really no longer to be my own. But then I thought, 'he stammers so beautifully, they'll leave us alone.'"
"[to King George VI, upon his learning that Logue has no formal credentials] It's true, I'm not a doctor. And yes, I acted. A bit. Well...I recited in pubs, I taught elocution in schools. When the Great War came, all our soldiers were returning to Australia from the front, a lot of them shell-shocked, unable to speak. Somebody said, "Lionel, you're very good at all this speech stuff, you think you could possibly help these poor buggers?" I did muscle therapy, exercises, relaxation, but I knew I had to go deeper. Those poor young blokes cried out in fear. No one was listening to them. My job was to give them faith in their own voice, and let them know a friend was listening."
"Forget everything else, and just say it to me. Say it to me, as a friend."
"In the past, all a king had to do was look respectable in uniform and not fall off his horse. Now we must invade people's homes and ingratiate ourselves with them. This family's been reduced to those lowest, basest of all creatures. We've become actors."
"[on Edward] I told him straight, no divorced person can ever be received at court! He said, it made him "sublimely happy." [scoffs] I imagine that was because she was sleeping with him. "I give you my word" - this is what he said - "I give you my word, we've never had immoral relations." Stared square into his father's face, and lied. When I'm dead, that boy will ruin himself, this family, and this nation within twelve months."
"It takes leadership to confront a nation's fear. It takes friendship to conquer your own."
"When God couldn't save The King, The Queen turned to someone who could."
"Find your voice."
"Colin Firth - Albert Frederick Arthur George, afterwards King George VI"
"Helena Bonham Carter - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, afterwards Queen Elizabeth"
"Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue"
"Guy Pearce - Edward, Duke of Windsor, afterwards King Edward VIII"
"Michael Gambon - King George V"
"Timothy Spall - Winston Churchill"
"Jennifer Ehle - Myrtle Logue"
"Derek Jacobi - Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of Canterbury)"
"Anthony Andrews - Stanley Baldwin"
"Eve Best - Wallis Simpson"
"Freya Wilson - Princess Elizabeth"
"Ramona Marquez - Princess Margaret"
"Claire Bloom - Queen Mary"
"I believe today is the day I become an excessively rich little bitch!"
"His tent was a dream. It was gigantic... filled with servants, and dancing girls… and belly dancers! They do incredible things with their stomachs, Cat!"
"Hey! That's not the way we did it last time. But, then I was a little girl. Now, I’m a woman. Do you want to taste my blood?"
"I have come all this way to give you something you may not even want: my virginity."
"I take the nectar of the Gods... from the belly of a goddess!"
"[About a belly dancer] Touch it... those are the muscles that drive men mad!"
"Once in a great while, a film comes along that is as provocative and controversial as the people who make it."
"The real future of Bolero is in home cassette rentals, where your fast forward and instant replay controls will supply the editing job the movie so desperately needs."
"The Hottest Erotic Film Of The Century"
"An Adventure in Ecstasy"
"An adventure in eXtasy [sic]"
"Bo Derek as Ayre "Mac" McGillvary"
"George Kennedy as Cotton"
"Andrea Occhipinti as Angel Sacristan"
"Ana Obregón as Catalina"
"Olivia d'Abo as Paloma"
"Greg Bensen as Sheik"
"Ian Cochrane as Robert Stewart"
"Mirta Miller as Evita"