The Phantom quotes from The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

The Phantom

Insolent boy! This slave of fashion, basking in your glory! Ignorant fool! This brave young suitor, sharing in my triumph!

The Phantom

Flattering child you shall know me. See why in shadow I hide. Look at your face in the mirror... I am there inside!

The Phantom

Wandering child, so lost, so helpless, yearning for my guidance.

The Phantom

Too long you've wandered in winter far from my fathering gaze.

The Phantom

Now, let it be war upon you both!

The Phantom

You will curse the day you did not do all that the Phantom asked of you!

The Phantom

This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing. A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing...

The Phantom

The world showed no compassion to me!

The Phantom

You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night!

The Phantom

Start a new life with me! Buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me and you'll send your lover to his death! This is the choice. This is the point of no return!

The Phantom

You try my patience. Make your choice.

The Phantom

So do you end your days with me or do you send him to his grave?

The Phantom

Monsieur, I bid you welcome. Did you think that I would harm her? Why would I make her pay for the sins which are yours?

The Phantom

You have come here for one purpose and one alone. Since the moment I first heard you sing I have needed you with me to serve me, to sing for my music. My music...

The Phantom

Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little viper! Now you cannot ever be free!

The Phantom

Stranger than you dreamed it, can you even dare to look or bear to think of me?

The Phantom

Pity comes too late! Turn around and face your fate: an eternity of this before your eyes...

The Phantom

Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind. Down that path into darkness deep as hell!

The Phantom

Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? Not for any mortal sin but the wickedness of my abhorrent face!

The Phantom

Hounded out by everyone. Met with hatred everywhere. No kind words from anyone, no compassion anywhere... Christine! Why? Why!

The Phantom

His life is now the prize which you must earn.

The Phantom

Too late for turning back, too late for prayers and useless pity...!

The Phantom

Take him, forget me, forget all of this... Leave me alone. Forget all you've seen. Go now, don't let them find you.

The Phantom

Christine, I love you...

The Phantom

Fear can turn to love - you'll learn to see, to find the man behind the monster, this... repulsive carcass, who seems a beast, but secretly dreams of beauty. Secretly... secretly...

The Phantom

I gave you my music... Made your song take wing... and now, how you've repaid me: denied me and betrayed me...

The Phantom

Sing once again with me our strange duet. My power over you grows stronger yet.

The Phantom

Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music that I write, the power of the music of the night.

The Phantom

Sing, my angel of music!

The Phantom

I am your angel of music. Come to me, angel of music...

The Phantom

That fate which condemns me to wallow in blood has also denied me the joys of the flesh.

The Phantom

Come, we must return. Those two fools who run my theatre will be missing you.

The Phantom

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the light you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be! Only then can you belong to me.

The Phantom

Why so silent, good messieurs? Did you think that I have left you for good?

The Phantom

You have come here in pursuit of your deepest urge, in pursuit of that wish, which 'til now has been silent, silent...

The Phantom

Take the boat, swear to me never to tell the secret you know of the angel in hell.

The Phantom

Perhaps it is you who are the toad.

The Phantom

Our Don Juan must lose some weight. It's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age.

The Phantom

Either way you choose, you cannot win.

The Phantom

But as the outcast hears shamed into solitude shunned by the multitude.

The Phantom

Masquerade, paper faces of parade. Masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you.

The Phantom

Seal my fate tonight. I hate to have to cut the fun short, but the joke's wearing thin. Let the audience in-

The Phantom

Let my opera begin!