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Rick Baker (36)

Birth:	8th December, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Martial Artist

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Richard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special makeup effects artist known for his creature effects. Baker was born in Binghamton, New York, the son of Doris and Ralph B. Baker, a professional artist.

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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.

  Rick Baker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Born, Science

• 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.

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  Tags in Come, Ever, Different

• 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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• 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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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Crew, Truly

• I have always tried to stay current.

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  Tags in Stay, Tried

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

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

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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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  Tags in Person

• 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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  Tags in Generation

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

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  Tags in Scary, Faces

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

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  Tags in Kind, Find

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wasting

• 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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  Tags in Backlash

• 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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• It’s fun doing new things.

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

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  Tags in Find, Anywhere, List

• 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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  Tags in Movie, Enjoy

• 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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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Happened

• 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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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Want

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Successful