Top 100 Stan Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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.”

— Stan Lee

55. “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.”

— Stan Lee

56. “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

57. “I don’t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.”

— Stan Lee

58. “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.”

— Stan Lee

59. “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

60. “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.”

— Stan Lee

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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.”

— Stan Lee

64. “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

65. “My biggest regret is that I don’t really have time to read.”

— Stan Lee

66. “The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.”

— Stan Lee

67. “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

68. “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.”

— Stan Lee

69. “You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn’t want to see it on the stage?”

— Stan Lee

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

— Stan Lee

71. “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

72. “I am going to die. Not in the goth existential way of overwrought poetry, all, “I stood upon the stage of life and saw Death, my dark-eyed lover, flipping me the bird from the back row,” but in the very literal sense that something’s going to happen to make his heart stop beating in, oh, say the next five minutes.”

— Stan Lee

73. “Fighting is the last resort of the ignorant!!” – Dr. Strange.”

— Stan Lee

74. “Are you tryin’ to defeat me by talking me to death?!′ – Peter Parker.”

— Stan Lee

75. “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

76. “Duane just kept working, not even looking up. We.”

— Stan Lee

77. “Good” and “Bad” may be alien concepts to him, Ben.”

— Stan Lee

78. “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

79. “But she didn’t know that when she was younger; then, the classroom was just a place that transformed itself based on whatever she was supposed to learn that day, like the Room of Requirement.”

— Stan Lee

80. “Forced idleness is a terrible thing.”

— 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. “Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.”

— Stan Lee

83. “Then, in far less time than it takes to tell – – The blip is gone – – But the wonderment begins – -.”

— Stan Lee

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. “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

86. “He has to survive this, if only to avoid having his digital corpse kicked to pieces by those grunting, knuckle-dragging troglodytes otherwise known as commenters.”

— Stan Lee

87. “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.”

— Stan Lee

88. “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

89. “For men must never feel a cause is hopeless – men must never feel an enemy cannot be beaten!”

— Stan Lee

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Marvel is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape from the humdrum and the prosaic. It’s a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.”

— Stan Lee

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “If there are people who like the work you’ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that’s really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.”

— Stan Lee

97. “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

98. “I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.”

— Stan Lee

99. “I think there’s the element of the excitement of what I’m going to see, and with the special effects where you see men flying and walking through walls and shooting flame or whatever they do, especially the younger audiences, which make up a bulk of the moviegoers, they love that sort of thing.”

— Stan Lee

100. “Let’s lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them – to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are.”

— Stan Lee