Rick Baker Quotes

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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…
• 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'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
• There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
• There are so many decisions in making a movie.
• I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
• Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they…
• 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.
• When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
• 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…
• When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
• Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we…

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