Jack Kirby Quotes

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

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.

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.

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

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?

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

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

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.

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.

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.

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

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

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.