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Quotes by Rick Baker

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.
– Rick Baker
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.
– Rick Baker
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?
– Rick Baker
I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
– Rick Baker
I usually say I'm Rick Baker, I'm a makeup artist.
– Rick Baker
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?
– Rick Baker
The Klump family dinner scene in The Nutty Professor was the inspiration for The Nutty Professor 2. It's ironic that the scene almost wasn't shot.
– Rick Baker
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.
– Rick Baker
When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.
– Rick Baker
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
– Rick Baker
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.
– Rick Baker
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.
– Rick Baker
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
– Rick Baker