Rick Baker Quotes

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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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  Kids, Play, Guy

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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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  Makeup, Magic, Actors

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Mean, Reflection

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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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  Jobs, Growing Up, Teenager

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• 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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  Pain, Funny Relationship, Artist

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

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  Trying, Technique, Modern

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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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  Teenager, Monsters, Doe

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• 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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  Different, Awful, Way

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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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  Rubber, Mask, Used

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Cheer, People, Kind

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

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  Makeup, Limits, Can Do

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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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  Real, Sight, Years

  "Master makeup artist Rick Baker on “An American Werewolf in London” and “Men in Black III”". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com. September 26, 2011.

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

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  Scary, Faces, Love Making

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

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  Film, Feels, Hard

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• 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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  Thinking, People, Tools

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• 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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  School, People, Taught

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• 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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  Jobs, People, Crew

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• I have always tried to stay current.

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  Currents

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• 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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  Hate, People, Important

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• 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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  Fiction, Tvs, Horror

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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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  Makeup, People, Want

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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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  Sculpture, Magazines, Digital

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• 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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  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• 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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  People, Generations, Television

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• 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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  Character, Expression, Trying

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