Stan Lee Quotes

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

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 I’ve never stopped feeling like a kid.

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.

Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

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

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.

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

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

When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like ‘Snow White’ and ‘Pinocchio.’

I wouldn’t mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don’t see any reason to change that.

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.

I guess one person can make a difference.