Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

The beauty of being alive is that each day you are given another chance to correct what you did wrong and improve on what you can do right.

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.