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Ocupation: Makeup artist

Life: b. December 8, 1950

Birthday: December 8

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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.

Topics: Kids, Play, Guy

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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.

Topics: People, Enjoy

I have always tried to stay current.

Topics: Currents

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

Topics: Film, Feels

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

Topics: Digital, Sculpture, Magazines, Sculpting

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

Topics: Want

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

Topics: Makeup, People, Want, Monster Movie, Fat People

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?

Topics: Jobs, Growing Up, Real

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

Topics: Aliens, Wanted

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.

Topics: Thinking, People, Tools, Cgi, Backlash

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

Topics: Trying, Technique, Modern

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Topics: Decision

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

Topics: Makeup, Magic, Actors

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

Topics: Running, People, Credit

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.

Topics: School, People, Taught

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.

source: - "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.

Topics: Real, Sight, Years

It's fun doing new things.

Topics: Fun

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

Topics: Character, Expression, Trying

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.

Topics: People, Generations, Television, My Generation

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.

Topics: Eye, Thinking, Two

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.

Topics: Pain, Funny Relationship, Makeup, Makeup Artist

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

Topics: Makeup, Limits

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

Topics: People, Find Me

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.

Topics: Jobs, Successful, People

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

Topics: Dream, Hobbies, Able

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

Topics: Fiction, Tvs, Horror

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.

Topics: Powerful, Mean, Reflection

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

Topics: Fun, Stuff

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.

Topics: Hate, People, Important

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

Topics: Jobs, People, Crew

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

Topics: Scary, Faces, Love Making

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.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Rubber, Mask, Used

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.

Topics: Awful, Way, Different

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.

Topics: Teenager, Doe, Different

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

Topics: Cheer, People, Kind

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