Rick Baker Quotes

• I’m not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don’t know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

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• I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

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  Tags in Hard, Fat

• The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn’t me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn’t do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

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• There’s a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

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• I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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• I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I’ve had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

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• There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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• I’ve said this so many times but there’s a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

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  Tags in Magic, Actor

• I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

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• I can’t tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, ‘Why don’t you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?’

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  Tags in Teenager

• Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

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  Tags in Position, Company, Credit

• The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, ‘This is how you do this.’ They’re not taught about why you do this.

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• So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

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• I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it’s how I spent all my free time.

  Rick Baker

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• I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I’m one of the luckiest guys in the world ‘cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

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  Tags in Toys, Hobby

• Grinch had so many people in make up – virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.

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Rick Baker (36)

Birth:	8th December, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Martial Artist

About

Richard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special makeup effects artist known for his creature effects. Baker was born in Binghamton, New York, the son of Doris and Ralph B. Baker, a professional artist.

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