American - Inventor | December 8, 1950 -
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
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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
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I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
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I have always tried to stay current.
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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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I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
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