Quotes tagged ‘Comic Books’

“I hope there will always be a little comic book for kids and teenagers and grown-ups to hold, because nothing replaces the experience of turning those pages, of smelling those pages.”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“I will say, a woman will go with any recognizable celebrity even if you're the ugliest celebrity in the world. That's just the law of fame.”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“You have to understand that growing up during the Depression, I saw my parents struggling to pay the rent. My father was always unemployed, and when he did have a job, he was a dress cutter. Not very much money there. I was happy enough to get a nice paycheck and be treated well. I always got the hi…”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“I hardly ever smoked a cigarette. I bought these thin cheroots because you didn't have to inhale. I would puff on them, but I eventually gave them up because I was burning holes in my sweaters. People read into the fact that I called the character Mary Jane, but honestly, I had no idea it was a nick…”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“First, I had to come up with an origin. How does this group get their superpowers? Well, the Fantastic Four had been clobbered by cosmic rays. The Hulk was hit with gamma rays. Incidentally, I had no idea what cosmic rays or gamma rays were, but they sounded good. And they were the only rays I knew.…”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“If I were dead and could come back to life, I wouldn't go around trying to kill people. I'd be saying, 'Wow! I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Isn't this terrific? Hello, you wonderful person. Let's go out and have fun.'”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn’t be as worthwhile an art form as anything on Earth?”

— Stan Lee, upress.state.ms.us

“So you see, comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. Iron Man, the Avengers, Spider-Man and all the rest are popular for the same reason 'Jack and the Beanstalk' is still popular after a million years. They're good stories about characters that are like us but also larger than us. That's the…”

— Stan Lee, playboy.com

“'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…”

— Stan Lee, washingtonpost.com

“Summer: You were in the comic book club? Seth: Yeah. I was the president and only member.”

— Liz Friedman, Josh Schwartz, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com

“Ralph: What's the matter? Aren't you up on current events? Don't you read the papers? Don't you read comic books? That's the trouble with you; you don't know the latest developments. Alice: I don't know the latest developments? Who is it that lets your pants out every other day?”

— A.J. Russell, Herbert Finn, Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason, imdb.com

“Love is...never asking for more than you are prepared to give.”

— Kim Casali, independent.co.uk