Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!
Interpretation
This quote expresses skepticism about the idea of superheroes in a bustling city like New York.
Stan Lee's quote humorously reflects a disbelief in the notion of superheroes existing in a realistic, urban environment such as New York City. It suggests that the extraordinary nature of superheroes clashes with the everyday reality of urban life, invoking a comedic skepticism that resonates with audiences familiar with both comic book lore and the chaos of city living.
In practice
During a comic book convention, to lighten the mood when discussing superhero themes.
To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.
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.
If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.
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.
My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.
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'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
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