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 More Quotes by Jack Kirby More Quotes From Jack Kirby I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money. Jack Kirby parent littles giving 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 benefits trying people 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. Jack Kirby institute versions done 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 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 house father 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. Jack Kirby joy long fiction 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 done purpose looks 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 guy art school Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. Jack Kirby courses approval mother 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 life-and-death done knowing 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 ambition mean fall My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor. Jack Kirby factories source parent 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 businessman lawyer 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 crooks als growing-up I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable. Jack Kirby affinity horror 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 guy kids people My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American. Jack Kirby my-ambition ambition perfect 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 creating work-out men 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 mediums draws years 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? Jack Kirby opportunity book people
