Top 30 Rick Baker Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Rick Baker

2. “I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.”

— Rick Baker

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3. “I have always tried to stay current.”

— Rick Baker

4. “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

5. “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.”

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

7. “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

8. “There’s a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.”

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

10. “It’s fun doing new things.”

— Rick Baker

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11. “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.”

— Rick Baker

12. “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.”

— Rick Baker

13. “I always wanted to make aliens that looked like ’60s aliens.”

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

16. “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

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

— Rick Baker

18. “I don’t want to be doing movies that I don’t want to do. They take so much out of you.”

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

20. “I’m not really listed anywhere; I don’t know how people find me!”

— Rick Baker

21. “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.”

— Rick Baker

22. “I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I’ve had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.”

— Rick Baker

23. “When you’re working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you’re doing.”

— Rick Baker

24. “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

25. “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.”

— Rick Baker

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

— Rick Baker

27. “I love making scary faces, that’s just how I grew up.”

— Rick Baker

28. “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.”

— Rick Baker

29. “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

30. “There are so many decisions in making a movie.”

— Rick Baker

31. “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

32. “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