Rick Baker Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.”
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“I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.”
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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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“I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.”
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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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“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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“I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.”
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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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“I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.”
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“There are so many decisions in making a movie.”
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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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“Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.”
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“I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!”
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“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.”
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“So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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