I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. – Rick Baker
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies. – 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
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 was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. – 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
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
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’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
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
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
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
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 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
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 have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! – 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
When you’re working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you’re doing. – Rick Baker
