Top 18 Stan Lee Quotes

I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.

I think I’ve never stopped feeling like a kid.

The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.

I always wrote for myself. I figured I’m not that different from other people. If there’s a story I like a lot, there’s got to be others with similar tastes.

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we’re all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

Because I’ve spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I’ve gained – and am still gaining – a great deal of knowledge about the feminine mystique and about personal relationships – knowledge which is so important to a writer.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn’t have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

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

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

Every kid wants to be an actor. When I was a kid, I thought, ‘Oh, it’d be great to be like Errol Flynn. I want to be an actor.’

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

Marvel Studios has depicted the Marvel superheroes so beautifully that the whole world loves them.

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

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.

I love Marvel and the people there. I’m glad I’m still part of it.

For years, kids have been asking me what’s the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you‘re lucky, everything works. I’ve been lucky.

We live in a diverse society – in fact, a diverse world – and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.