Stan Lee Quotes

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• To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.
• 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…
• 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…
• Reading is very good. And you can quote me!
• I love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.
• Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!
• MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST…
• 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…
• 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…
• I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.
• 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…
• Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

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