Top 111 Stan Quotes & Sayings

What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.

Let's see, what was my favorite of 'Golden Girls'. Anything Stan was involved with, I was obsessed with.

I'm actually the #1 Ross Butler stan.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

You're going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy's frustration if his team had a tough quarter.

See! I just kicked Stan!!!

When you're a kid that's spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you're in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee - it's wonderful.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

It was cool to meet Stan Lee.

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.

The man I respect the most in the business - and he's in the hedge fund business - is probably Stan Druckenmiller. He's just so smart and so good and so up on everything. I think he's fantastic investor.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

I'm a fan of Adidas Originals. I love their Stan Smith collection.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

It was an honor to meet the iconic Stan Lee.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

I stan my friends!

A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'South Park' more than anybody is my dad. Stan's father, Randy - my dad's name is Randy - that's my drawing of my dad; that's me doing my dad's voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan's last name, Marsh, was my dad's stepfather's name.

Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'

Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

Stan Van Gundy is a top-five coach.

I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew that I uniquely had the comics version of his job, which was to take Spider-Man and put him into the modern day. But I thought, "Maybe he wants to tell me to cut it out." So I come in, it's in his office, and then Stan Lee comes in, and I'd only ever met Stan as a fan, not as a professional. And then they sit us down on a couch, and roll in an AV cart with a TV on it and go, "We're going to show you the first cut of Spider-Man."

The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

Scarily, I was only about 11 or 12 when my mum pointed out my resemblance to Stan Laurel. I know he's the ultimate loser, but I was happy to hear it.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

I was there when Sam Raimi showed Stan Lee the first cut of the first Spider-Man movie. I was on a couch next to Stan, watching how special effects had finally caught up to his imagination. It was insane. And I'm thinking, "He had to wait until he was 80 years old for that to happen." When they announced 'Powers' and 'Jessica Jones,' I thought, "Oh, that's nice!"

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

While other kids were into New Kids on the Block, I was into Harold Lloyd and Stan Laurel.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'

Listen, I'm a fan, no, I'm a stan of Ariana Grande.

Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.