Rick Baker Quotes

#1. 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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#2. CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

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#3. I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

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#4. I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

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#5. I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

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#6. 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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#7. I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

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#8. 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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#9. I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

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#10. I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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#11. It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

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#12. So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

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#17. 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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#18. I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

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

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#20. There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

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#27. I have always tried to stay current.

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#28. I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

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#33. There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

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#34. When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

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#35. 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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