Rick Baker
Rick Baker
Richard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special make-up effects creator known for his creature effects. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMakeup Artist
Date of Birth8 December 1950
CountryUnited States of America
diploma kids life rocking seeing sitting stage year
Seeing kids who didn't think they were going to get a diploma actually get one -- most of them are really appreciative, ... I never thought at this stage of my life I would be doing something like this in my thirty-sixth year (of teaching). I thought I would be sitting back in my rocking chair.
television
I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,
american-inventor people sets virtually
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.
american-inventor inside shock time worked
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?
happened knows nobody
It happened so fast, and in the dark, that nobody knows what happened.
helped
I like that place. They helped me out a lot,
scary faces love-making
I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
awful way different
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.
rubber mask used
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.
teenager doe 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.
currents
I have always tried to stay current.
fiction tvs horror
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
following promise seamless
We really are following through on our promise to make St. Petersburg a seamless community,
famous monsters
When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.