Best quotes by Stan Lee

NostalgiaComic BooksIn fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

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.

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 LeeMovies help the sales of the comics.

RespectValueMoviesComic BooksThe movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

MoviesComic BooksThe comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

ActingI love all the voiceovers I do. I can't remember them all, but I seem to do them all of the time. And there's nothing easier because you just stand and read the script, and you don't have to act the way actors do. You don't have to be made up and put costumes on.

ActingEnjoymentCreative ProcessI love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

EntertainmentRealizationI 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.

ExcitementNewsMysteryWherever 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.

MoviesCharactersSuperheroesIf 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.

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

TelevisionMoviesComicsSo 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.

AngerIdentitySelf-ExpressionPublic ImageI 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.

Character DevelopmentBelievabilityThe 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.

FamiliarityStan LeeI'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good.

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.

Work-Life BalanceEnjoymentHobbiesRetirementIf I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want to do? And what I want to do is what I'm doing. I enjoy coming up with new ideas, which if I'm lucky they might be good ideas. I enjoy seeing them take shape. And I'm having fun doing it. So I wouldn't know why I'd want to retire.

Work EthicCreativityAppreciationFilmmakingMovie MakingI 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.

LoveNew York CityMemoriesMy memories are beautiful because my wife Joan is English and shortly after we were married, we stayed in London and I never forgot it. We loved it so much that we've been back very often and it's always a thrill. To me, there's New York City where I was born and raised and then there's London!

MotivationCreativityWritingStorytellingIf nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything else because it's no fun writing stories, particularly not for me. I just do it in order to sell them and make a couple of bucks.

CreativityInspirationWritingIdeasProcessI don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.

ChildhoodRegretCollectingComic BooksThat's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

ExcitementThe "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock.

It's the fact that fans still care. I like all the comics conventions: The smaller ones are easier, the bigger ones are exciting.... Each one I say: Never again. But they're all great.... These things are important because they keep the fans' interest alive in comics. They keep the fans reading and their imaginations stimulated.

InclusivityI want to get that same feeling that everybody logging on to our website is sharing a little bit of an inside joke, and the rest of the world is oblivious to it although I want to have most of the world.

RespectCreativityExcitementI'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.

EntertainmentFunCommunicationThe main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun.

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

ComicsSuperheroesI think I've got 12... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans.... Just about all of their top titles.

LoyaltyPersonal PreferencesCollectingI 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.

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

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

EntertainmentExcitementYou always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.

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?

MusicComedyEntertainment IndustryStoriesDancingIn the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.

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

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.

ChangeWritingStoriesI never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.

New YorkNostalgiaPersonal ConnectionLife ExperiencesI am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

SuperheroesPeople like stories that are bigger than life, about characters with unusual powers. And when you get all the characters in the zodiac, it's so colorful, and it's so rich in different attitudes that the characters have.

ActingFunEnjoymentPerformingInterviewsI'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.

Про дітейExcitementStorytellingSuperheroesI think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.

FilmStorytellingMediaComic BooksAdaptationIt is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

ExpectationsStan LeeI don't expect every movie to be done exactly the way I would have done it.

HopeOnce you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.