Jack Kirby Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Names, Differences, Guy

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Reading, Artist

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

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Mother, Doors, Order

  Source: www.tcj.com

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

  Jack Kirby

  Humble, Artist, Editors

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

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• I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

  Jack Kirby

  Curriculum, Students, Excellent

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

  Jack Kirby

  Where We Come, Equations

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• The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

  Jack Kirby

  People, Guy, Association

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

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• My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

  Jack Kirby

  Children, Father, Boys

  Source: www.tcj.com

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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.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Creating, Work Out

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

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• When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

  Jack Kirby

  Scene, Industry

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Kids, People, Guy

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

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• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Guy, Would Be

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

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• I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.

  Jack Kirby

  Looks, Purpose, Done

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

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• A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.

  Jack Kirby

  Fighting, Fire, Way

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

  Jack Kirby

  Horror, Affinity

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

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• You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

  Jack Kirby

  Growing Up, Als, Crooks

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

  Jack Kirby

  People, Trying, Benefits

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

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• I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.

  Jack Kirby

  Years, Mediums, Draws

  Source: comicbookcollectorsclub.com

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Fall, Ambition, Mean

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked.

  Jack Kirby

  Dream, Father, House

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

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• My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

  Jack Kirby

  Parent, Source, Factories

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Good Times, Lawyer

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

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• 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

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Reality, Illustration

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• 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.

  Jack Kirby

  House, Fields, Animation

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

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