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" I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies. "
Rick Baker
People
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" 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. "
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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 always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens. "
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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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Said
" 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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Know
You
World
" 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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Done
Me
People
" 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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Television
Up
People
" 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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Make
Able
Hobby
" I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up. "
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Making
Just
Love
" I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. "
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Find
Try
Stay
" 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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Digital
Work
Top
" 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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Good
Time
Reason
" It's fun doing new things. "
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New Things
Doing
Fun
" When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. "
Rick Baker
Expression
Try
Mask
" I have always tried to stay current. "
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Tried
Always
Current
" 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. "
Rick Baker
Death
End
Lucky
" 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. "
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Every Day
Day
Months
" I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. "
Rick Baker
Cheer
Someone
People
" There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics. "
Rick Baker
Makeup
Limit
I Can
" I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me! "
Rick Baker
Really
How
Find
" 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. "
Rick Baker
Good
Work
Wrong
" I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you. "
Rick Baker
Out
Take
You
" There are so many decisions in making a movie. "
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Decisions
Making
Movie
" 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?' "
Rick Baker
You
Job
Me
" 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. "
Rick Baker
See
Possibilities
Eyes
" I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. "
Rick Baker
Horror
Science
Born
" I do a lot of CG stuff for fun. "
Rick Baker
Lot
Fun
Stuff
" 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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Relationship
Funny
Makeup
" Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it. "
Rick Baker
Position
Company
Credit