Quotes About Stan Lee

#1. You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

Jason Aaron

#2. I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

Dan DeCarlo

#3. Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Rob Zombie

#4. I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - 'God Loves, Man Kills', which is a brilliant story.

Josh Helman

#5. Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

Mickey Spillane

#6. I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Herb Trimpe

#7. If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

David Dastmalchian

#8. They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

David Lloyd

#9. There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

Alan Moore

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

Stan Lee

#11. 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.

Stan Lee

#12. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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#14. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#18. 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?

Stan Lee

#19. I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

Brian Michael Bendis

#20. 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.

Stan Lee

#21. 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.

Stan Lee

#22. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#24. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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

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

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#29. 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.

Stan Lee

#30. Life is never completely without its challenges.

Stan Lee

#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.

Lee Child

#34. Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

Paul Simon

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

Stan Lee

#36. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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

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#40. 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.

Stan Lee

#41. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#44. Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

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#45. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#47. 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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#48. 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."

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#51. 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.

Stan Lee

#52. 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.

Stan Lee

#53. 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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#54. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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#56. 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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#57. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#59. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#63. 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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#64. 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.

Stan Lee

#65. 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!

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#69. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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#72. 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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#73. Wives should be kissed - not heard.

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#74. 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.

Stan Lee

#75. 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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#76. 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.

Stan Lee

#77. 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.

Stan Lee

#78. 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.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#80. 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.

Stan Lee

#81. 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.

Stan Lee

#82. Face front, true believers!

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

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

Stan Lee

#85. 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.

Stan Lee

#86. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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#88. 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.

Stan Lee

#89. 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.

Stan Lee

#90. 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!

Stan Lee

#91. 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.

Stan Lee

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

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#93. 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.

Stan Lee

#94. With great power comes great responsibilty.

Stan Lee

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

Stan Lee

#96. 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.

Stan Lee

#97. 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

Stan Lee

#98. 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.

Stan Lee

#99. 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.

Stan Lee

#100. 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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