Rick Baker Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.

Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.

Mr. Helm taking credit for taking down the barricades is like Al Gore claiming credit for the Internet, ... It's simply not true.

I have a responsibility to make sure my citizens are protected. That goes beyond the legal mandate,

What do you say to someone who's just experienced something like this? It's terrible, ... I knew Patrick and he was a really great young man. He had a lot of heart. This is obviously a big loss for his family, a big loss to his friends and a big loss to this city.

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.

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

It happened so fast, and in the dark, that nobody knows what happened.

People have been asking for this post office for more than 50 years, ... It just wasn't able to be done. It was very hard to do.

We really are following through on our promise to make St. Petersburg a seamless community,

We have something never seen before, ... Two blocks of art as a village with condominiums on top.

You are laughing at our police officers but I'm proud of them,

We'll have forums and debates, ... There's not been any ducking.

I usually say "I'm Rick Baker, I'm a makeup artist.

Seeing kids who didn't think they were going to get a diploma actually get one -- most of them are really appreciative, ... I never thought at this stage of my life I would be doing something like this in my thirty-sixth year (of teaching). I thought I would be sitting back in my rocking chair.

Probably one of the biggest savings is with using a waste oil furnace to provide heat for the shop. This is a cost savings for us of about $700 a month during the heating season.

This group will be the strength of the team.

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

It's always kind of a shock the first time you see a movie that you worked on to see what's really inside the edit. And how much of it, you know?

No matter what, ... I'll always be a Rays supporter.

I like that place. They helped me out a lot,

I grew up in Indianapolis, going to the 500, and I love it. Having this race here is like heaven for me.

I had a blood-and-guts period when I was a kid, but I just think that whole splatter movie thing kinda got out of control, and too many people became too desensitized to other people being brutally murdered, you know?

If you lose the development as a result, we continue to have 100 percent of zero (new revenue). Incentives are an investment on the communities' part, to offset some of the related cost to bring development and the jobs and the tax revenue that result from it.

The county administrator is the chief operating person for the county and I am that for the city, ... We have dozens and dozens of issues that we're working on at all times.

The first domino is the Texas-OU situation. Anyone involved in college football in the area has to know how important that event is. For our part, we're going to stay right on top of things as they progress. We're really on the sidelines of this whole discussion, though, outside of whatever we can do to help.

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

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.

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.

It's fun doing new things.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have always tried to stay current.