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With great power comes great responsibilty.
Stan Lee Quotes: With great power comes great
Luck's a revolving door, you just need to know when it's your time to walk through.
Stan Lee Quotes: Luck's a revolving door, you
Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.
Stan Lee Quotes: Quality. That's the first word,
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.
Stan Lee Quotes: I'm no prophet, but I'm
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.
Stan Lee Quotes: I'm a frustrated actor. My
And now, until we meet again, may the blessings of Asgard be showered upon you!
Stan Lee Quotes: And now, until we meet
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 Quotes: It's a tremendous challenge, because
Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.
Stan Lee Quotes: Achilles, without his heel, you
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 Quotes: I have never had a
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 Quotes: When you work with people
Forced idleness is a terrible thing.
Stan Lee Quotes: Forced idleness is a terrible
Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next villain be Dr. Doom" ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's so good at plots, I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things.
Stan Lee Quotes: Some artists, such as Jack
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 Quotes: I don't sound disloyal, but
They sit together, physically separate but utterly connected by the moment they've created
Stan Lee Quotes: They sit together, physically separate
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 Quotes: I've been very lucky. All
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 Quotes: Your humans slaughter each other
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,
Stan Lee Quotes: I wanted them to be
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
Stan Lee Quotes: To me, writing is fun.
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.
Stan Lee Quotes: It's the fact that fans
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 Quotes: I'm just working with ideas
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
Stan Lee Quotes: Whosoever holds this hammer, if
Of what import are brief, nameless lives ... to Galactus?
Stan Lee Quotes: Of what import are brief,
When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.
Stan Lee Quotes: When you can sit down
Reading is very good. And you can quote me!
Stan Lee Quotes: Reading is very good. And
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
Stan Lee Quotes: Comic books to me are
You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...
Stan Lee Quotes: You know, I guess one
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 Quotes: I had a publisher who
I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.
Stan Lee Quotes: I think people have always
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 Quotes: Nevermore shall men make slaves
That'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.
Stan Lee Quotes: That's what everybody tells me.
Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.
Stan Lee Quotes: Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon]
Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read? ... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.
Stan Lee Quotes: Everybody wants to feel that
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 Quotes: Just because you have superpowers,
I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.
Stan Lee Quotes: I used to be embarrassed
No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.
Stan Lee Quotes: No one has a perfect
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 Quotes: In the beginning Marvel created
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 Quotes: When I was a kid,
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me
I swear
"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.
Stan Lee Quotes: Once, I'd written a Western
Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out.
Stan Lee Quotes: Comic books sort of follow
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 Quotes: That person who helps others
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 Quotes: I never tried to write
People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.
Stan Lee Quotes: People are pissed off about
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 Quotes: The thing to me that's
The "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.
Stan Lee Quotes: The
I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.
Stan Lee Quotes: I'm sort of a pressure
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 Quotes: I am so impressed with
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 Quotes: I thought it would be
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 Quotes: Every kid loves fairy tales,
Wives should be kissed - not heard.
Stan Lee Quotes: Wives should be kissed -
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 Quotes: I'm as excited as a
I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.
Stan Lee Quotes: I'm lucky. I don't have
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 Quotes: What the hell could you
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 Quotes: I work with people and
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 Quotes: I have to force myself
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 Quotes: Technology isn't a villain. Technology
And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.
Stan Lee Quotes: And we talk it out.
Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.
Stan Lee Quotes: Fans are almost always nice.
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 Quotes: I thought it would be
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 Quotes: To my way of thinking,
Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
Stan Lee Quotes: Comming from your friendly neighborhood
Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.
Stan Lee Quotes: Singing a song, playing sports
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.
Stan Lee Quotes: Comic books themselves are getting
I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.
Stan Lee Quotes: I love Marvel and the
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 Quotes: All I thought about when
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
Stan Lee Quotes: You can read a Shakespeare
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 Quotes: If you wanna be an
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 Quotes: I never thought that Spider-Man
To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.
Stan Lee Quotes: To tell you the truth,
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 Quotes: When you combine the great
I guess one person can make a difference.
Stan Lee Quotes: I guess one person can
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 Quotes: To be honest, when I
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 Quotes: The public always loves anything
The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14
Stan Lee Quotes: The power of prayer is
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 Quotes: If you have superheroes or
Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.
Stan Lee Quotes: Good
There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.
Stan Lee Quotes: There is only one who
I 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.
Stan Lee Quotes: I suppose I have come
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 Quotes: I think if I were
There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
Stan Lee Quotes: There's never a time when
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 Quotes: I have a reputation for
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