The Phantom of the Opera: I was born with facial deformities that are so horrific that even my own mother couldn't bear to look at me.
Me: So that's why you have to live as an outcast in the basements of the opera house?
The Phantom, who has been an admired performer, palace architect, royal executioner, and chief contractor of the opera house who is able to go out in public with no alteration to his face except a false nose and mustache: No, that's a separate choice that I've made.

















