Maybe being here won’t be so bad after all… as long as I can avoid the music, the bloodthirsty diva duo, and the phantom’s shadow lurking around every corner.

The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness.

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

This can’t be a coincidence, and there’s no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.

He raised his wine for a toast. “To the Exquisite Nightmare.

I don’t want to blend, ” Etalon whispered. “I want to belong.

He’d walked as a ghost in the gloomy bowels of this opera house for so long, darkness had become his brother, which was fitting, since his father was the night, and sunlight their forgotten friend.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.