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
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What do you say to someone who's just experienced something like this? It's terrible, ... I knew Patrick and he was a really great young man. He had a lot of heart. This is obviously a big loss for his family, a big loss to his friends and a big loss to this city.
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I have a responsibility to make sure my citizens are protected. That goes beyond the legal mandate,
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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 grew up in Indianapolis, going to the 500, and I love it. Having this race here is like heaven for me.
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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?
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If you lose the development as a result, we continue to have 100 percent of zero (new revenue). Incentives are an investment on the communities' part, to offset some of the related cost to bring development and the jobs and the tax revenue that result from it.
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I like that place. They helped me out a lot,
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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 we're working on at all times.
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The first domino is the Texas-OU situation. Anyone involved in college football in the area has to know how important that event is. For our part, we're going to stay right on top of things as they progress. We're really on the sidelines of this whole discussion, though, outside of whatever we can do to help.
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There are so many decisions in making a movie.
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Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
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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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So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.