Words matter. These are the best Rick Baker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
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 have always tried to stay current.
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?’
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.
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.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
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.
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.
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 was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
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.
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
I’ve said this so many times but there’s a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
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.
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.
There’s a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I’ve had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
It’s fun doing new things.
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.
