Latest Jack Kirby Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Son, Sight, Being Cool

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

• There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

  Jack Kirby

  Hurt, Lying, People

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

• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  Jack Kirby

  Lying, Men, Suffering

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

• I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

  Jack Kirby

  Atmosphere, Lawyer, Businessman

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

• I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

  Jack Kirby

  Hurt, Party, People

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

• I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

  Jack Kirby

  Character, Individuality, Elements

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

• I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Thinking, Accomplish

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

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Sports, Guy, Want

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

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Knowing, Life And Death, Done

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

• Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Years, Giving

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

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, School, Guy

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

• I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Good Man, Trying

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

• I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

  Jack Kirby

  Character, People, Having Hope

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

• I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Editors, Ideas

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Dirty, Looks, Stories

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

• I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Rocks, Creating

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

• I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

  Jack Kirby

  Writing, Views, People

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

• I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

  Jack Kirby

  Mtv, Elements, Entertainment

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

• Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

  Jack Kirby

  Fields, Top Performers, Kind

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

• I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.

  Jack Kirby

  Mother, Europe, People

  Source: kirbymuseum.org

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Creating, Work Out

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Independent, Men, Feelings

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

• If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, People, Benefits

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

• I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

  Jack Kirby

  Unhappy, Want

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

• I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.

  Jack Kirby

  Done, Half, Reason

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.