Jack Kirby Quotes

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  • I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

    Men   Creating   Work Out  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

    Men   Thinking   People  
  • You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

    Hurt   Fighting   Guy  
    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

    Fighting   Long   Kind  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

    Sports   Guy   Want  
    Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.
  • I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

    Believe   Yeah   Reader  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

    Dirty   Looks   Stories  
    Source: kirbymuseum.org
  • All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

    Son   Sight   Being Cool  
    Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.
  • Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

    Kind   Brands   Brand New  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

    Thinking   Men   Hands  
  • I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.

    Reading   Forever   Gone  
  • If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

    Long   Joy   Fiction  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

    Names   Differences   Guy  
    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

    Done   Half   Audience  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.

    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

    Art   Men   Literature  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.

    Art   School   Guy  
    Source: kirbymuseum.org
  • There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

    Mother   Doors   Order  
    Source: www.tcj.com
  • An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

    Kids   People   Guy  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

  • There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.

    Source: www.tcj.com
  • Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

    Humble   Artist   Editors  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

    Real   Guy   Would Be  
    Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.
  • If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

    Fall   Ambition   Mean  
    Source: www.tcj.com
  • I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

    Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.
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