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Popularity: 2 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	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?
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I usually say "I'm Rick Baker, I'm a makeup artist.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	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?
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The Klump family dinner scene in The Nutty Professor was the inspiration for The Nutty Professor 2. It's ironic that the scene almost wasn't shot.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.

Biography

Richard A. "Rick" Baker (born December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York, USA) is a Hollywood special makeup effects artist known for his realistic creature effects.

His extensive makeup work has ranged from low to high-budget film and TV projects, including The Thing with Two Heads (1972), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman (1974), Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) (for which he won the first special effects Academy Award), the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987 - 9), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), The Rocketeer (1991), both Men in Black movies (1997 and 2002), both The Nutty Professor movies (1996 and 2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and Hellboy (2004).