Top 100 Stan Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I guess one person can make a difference.”

— Stan Lee

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2. “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

— Stan Lee

3. “Life is never completely without its challenges.”

— Stan Lee

4. “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

5. “No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.”

— Stan Lee

6. “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

7. “We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.”

— Stan Lee

8. “Face front, true believers!”

— Stan Lee

9. “I like Spider-Man because he’s become the most famous. He’s the one who’s most like me – nothing ever turns out 100 percent OK; he’s got a lot of problems, and he does things wrong, and I can relate to that.”

— Stan Lee

10. “To me, writing is fun. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, as long as you can tell a story.”

— Stan Lee

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

— Stan Lee

12. “I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.”

— Stan Lee

13. “That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.”

— Stan Lee

14. “Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.”

— Stan Lee

15. “Singing a song, playing sports – anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.”

— Stan Lee

16. “Reading is very good. And you can quote me!”

— Stan Lee

17. “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.”

— Stan Lee

18. “I love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.”

— Stan Lee

19. “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

20. “Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn’t even know his name today.”

— Stan Lee

21. “Entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end.”

— Stan Lee

22. “Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!”

— Stan Lee

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Stan Lee

25. “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

26. “If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn’t be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?”

— Stan Lee

27. “You know, I guess one person can make a difference. ‘Nuff said...”

— Stan Lee

28. “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

29. “Luck’s a revolving door, you just need to know when it’s your time to walk through.”

— Stan Lee

30. “If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.”

— Stan Lee

31. “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

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

— Stan Lee

33. “There’s never a time when I’m not working. I don’t take vacations.”

— Stan Lee

34. “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

35. “Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.”

— Stan Lee

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader – that anybody could have.”

— Stan Lee

40. “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.”

— Stan Lee

41. “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

42. “I’m very proud of being a hack. It’s why I’ve lived as long as I have, I think.”

— Stan Lee

43. “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

44. “To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.”

— Stan Lee

45. “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

46. “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.”

— Stan Lee

47. “With great power there must also come – great responsibility.”

— Stan Lee

48. “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

49. “I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it’ll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.”

— Stan Lee

50. “There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.”

— Stan Lee