“It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.” IfsMenCompanyWifeMonthsSittingSticksStudiosMy WifeGravesBoardsWhat IfDisney CompanySoapbox Author:Mike Royer
“If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.” IfsHumorWould BeFunnyDrunkRabbitsMessed UpCarrots Author:Mitch Hedberg
“In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.” IfsWantSidesBrainCompanyPaidCorporateMentalityBrain Dead Author:Mike Royer
“I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.” PeopleWantKindDoneWantedForeverStudentsProjectsPatientThings Done Author:Jack Kirby
“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.” DoneVersionsInstitute Author:Jack Kirby
“I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.” StyleTypePerfectionStorytellingVisualsVisual Storytelling Author: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 which is universal.” MenArtSelfFormArtistCommonUniversalGreat ArtGreat ArtistCommon Man Author:Jack Kirby
“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.” IfsMayRealityArtistTownsInstinctWesternDrawingGutsIllustrationDuplicate Author: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.” MenArtLiteratureFeltCommonGrewPublishingCommon Man Author:Jack Kirby
“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.” KindDreamPurposeFatherHouseSupportRight Thing Author:Jack Kirby