Stan Lee Quotes

I’m happiest when I’m working. If I’m not working, I feel like I’m wasting my time.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

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.

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.

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.

I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it’s better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.

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.

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

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

I don’t think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn’t even know his name today.

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.

With great power comes great responsibilty.

I always felt the ‘X-Men,’ in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.