I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.
All societies end up wearing masks.
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.