Rick Baker Quotes

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

"You are laughing at our police officers but I'm proud of them,"

"This group will be the strength of the team."

"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?"

"[Emerging from decisive victory, Baker employed the same tactic as Fischer, extending a hand to west St. Petersburg.] It was a very deliberate thing, ... West St. Petersburg is a big, important part of the city."

"I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,"

"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?"

"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 grew up in Indianapolis, going to the 500, and I love it. Having this race here is like heaven for me."

"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."

"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."