Stan Lee Quotes
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.
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.
Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
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
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.
Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening.
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.
I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.
I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.
Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.
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.
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.
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.
The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.
These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.
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.
Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.
I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.
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.
I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.
Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain them but maybe do them some good in some way.
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.
The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14