There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

- Rick Baker

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. …

- Rick Baker

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

- Rick Baker

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

- Rick Baker

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 d…

- Rick Baker

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

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 a…

- Rick Baker

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

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