Rick Baker Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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

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• 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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• I’m not really listed anywhere; I don’t know how people find me!

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• It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent – I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

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• When you’re working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you’re doing.

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• When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I’m lucky.

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• I don’t want to be doing movies that I don’t want to do. They take so much out of you.

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• It’s fun doing new things.

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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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