Quotes by Rick Baker

“I had a blood-and-guts period when I was a kid, but I just think that whole splatter movie thing kinda got out of control, and too many people became too desensitized to other people being brutally murdered, you know?”

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

“Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. Theres only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. Youre also limited by the face that youre working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.”

“Its always kind of a shock the first time you see a movie that you worked on to see whats really inside the edit. And how much of it, you know?”

“When I was in Famous Monsters as Rick Baker, Monster Maker, Id made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.”

“I usually say Im Rick Baker, Im a makeup artist.”

“I like that place. They helped me out a lot,”

“I have a responsibility to make sure my citizens are protected. That goes beyond the legal mandate,”

“The county administrator is the chief operating person for the county and I am that for the city, ... We have dozens and dozens of issues that were working on at all times.”

“Seeing kids who didnt 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.”

Its a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

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.