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.
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.
I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
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?
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.
When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.
Rick won the very first Oscar for Make-Up for his work on An American Werewolf In London (1981). He also received Oscars and nominations for the following films: Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (1984) (nominated, shared with Paul Engelen) Harry And The Hendersons (1987) (won Oscar) Coming To America (1988) (nominated) Ed Wood (1994) (won Oscar, shared with Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng) The Nutty Professor (1996) (won Oscar, shared with David LeRoy Anderson) Men In Black (1997) (won Oscar, shared with David LeRoy Anderson) Life (1999) (won Oscar) How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) (won Oscar, shared with Gail Rowell-Ryan) He was also nominated for the Best Effects: Visual Effects Oscar for Mighty Joe Young (1998) along with Hoyt Yeatman, Allen Hall, and Jim Mitchell.
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