Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Baker

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Richard A. Baker, known professionally as Rick Baker, is an American retired special make-up effects creator and actor. He is mostly known for his creature designs and effects. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning when he won the inaugural award for the 1981 horror comedy film An American Werewolf in London.

American - Inventor | Born: December 8, 1950

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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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

I have always tried to stay current.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

It's fun doing new things.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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?'

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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

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

Rick Baker

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

Rick Baker

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?

Rick Baker

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

Rick Baker

Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Baker

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