“I hear Japs are happy to die for their emperor. A lot of them are going to be made very happy.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy

“Females are useful there only to work or to have children. The Japs don't understand the love we have for our women. They don't even have a word for it in their language.”
Cary Grant - Capt. Cassidy

“It's true we Americans don't know very much about you Japanese. And we never did. And now I realize you know even less about us. You can kill us. All of us, or part of us. But if you think that's going to put the fear of God into the United States of America, and stop them from sending other flyers to bomb you, you're wrong.”
Dana Andrews - Capt. Harvey Ross

“Geisha are not courtesans or wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty.”

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration