Stan Lee Quotes

I just think adding superheroes to something instantly makes it more interesting. I have a friend who says every movie should either be a Spider-Man movie, or at least have Spider-Man in it. I thought it was such a brilliant quote. It kind of is true, in a weird way.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero.

I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.

I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?

As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who held my interest - The Green Hornet.

I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

There were so many amazing comic books. Like I was around for the original Frank Miller/Chris Claremont 'Wolverine' miniseries.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

I love superhero movies.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.