Jack Kirby

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

— Jack Kirby

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly…

— Jack Kirby

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man…

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that…

— Jack Kirby

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

— Jack Kirby

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I…

— Jack Kirby

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get…

— Jack Kirby

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…

— Jack Kirby

I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the…

— Jack Kirby

I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle…

— Jack Kirby

There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would…

— Jack Kirby

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…

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people…

— Jack Kirby

Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes…

— Jack Kirby

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with…

— Jack Kirby

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…

— Jack Kirby

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to…

— Jack Kirby

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for…

— Jack Kirby

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's…

— Jack Kirby

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt,…

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were…

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the…

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

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

— Jack Kirby

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but…

— Jack Kirby

A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You…

— Jack Kirby

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get…

— Jack Kirby

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out…

— Jack Kirby

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…

— Jack Kirby

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art…

— Jack Kirby

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You…

— Jack Kirby

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

— Jack Kirby

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but…

— Jack Kirby

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not…

— Jack Kirby