Top 89 Stan Lee Quotes

#1. So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

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#2. In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good.

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#3. I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

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#4. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

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#5. Wives should be kissed - not heard.

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#6. I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.

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#7. To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

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#8. I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

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#9. If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun.

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#10. The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

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#11. I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

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#12. I guess one person can make a difference.

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#13. There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!

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#14. Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.

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#15. No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

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#16. For men must never feel a cause is hopeless
men must never feel an enemy cannot be beaten!

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#17. I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

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#18. A superhero's catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can't stop humming it. And let's face it, superheroes are just really selling themselves as products.

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#19. I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

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#20. Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

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#21. When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

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#22. I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.

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#23. And now, until we meet again, may the blessings of Asgard be showered upon you!

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#24. If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

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#25. In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good.

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#26. I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

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#27. Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics
or for no reason at all
too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

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#28. Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.

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#29. People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

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#30. With great power comes great responsibilty.

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#31. Technology isn't a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you're cheating your audience. You're not giving them the best story and the best direction and so forth.

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#32. I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.

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#33. When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

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#34. I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

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#35. I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

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#36. To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.

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#37. Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

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#38. The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're doing fantasy stories, when you're doing superhero types of things.

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#39. I didn't write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'm not even sure who they all are. I can't wait to see the movie.

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#40. When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!

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#41. Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

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#42. Face front, true believers!

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#43. To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

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#44. I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.

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#45. Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!

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#46. Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard
not on Earth
not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung
or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

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#47. It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up with a great name, you find out somebody has already done it. Dreaming up the stories isn't that hard, but coming up with a good title is the toughest part.

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#48. I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person,

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#49. Life is never completely without its challenges.

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#50. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

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#51. No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

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#52. We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

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#53. There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

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#54. I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

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#55. I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

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#56. Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

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#57. I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

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#58. Of what import are brief, nameless lives ... to Galactus?

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#59. I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

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#60. I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

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#61. The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.

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#62. Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

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#63. Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

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#64. To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

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#65. What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years where's anything of interest to people?

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#66. If you have superheroes or characters that exist in the same world, and you're doing movies of them, wouldn't it be fun to put a couple of them together in one movie? Audiences love that. It's a natural thing to do that.

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#67. The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.

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#68. Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

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#69. I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere. Money's okay, but what I really like is working.

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#70. I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.

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#71. Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.

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#72. I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.

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#73. I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

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#74. I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.

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#75. I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."

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#76. We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

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#77. The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

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#78. I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

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#79. My biggest regret is that I don't really have time to read.

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#80. Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

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#81. All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.

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#82. Wherever we find news, excitement, mystery and adventure, there, too, we
find the newspaper reporter. Always on the alert for something new, ready to
risk his very life for a scoop and finding adventure in every corner of the
globe.

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#83. You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

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#84. I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

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#85. Duane just kept working, not even looking up. We

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#86. I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

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#87. Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.

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#88. I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.

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#89. There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.

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