Dan Aykroyd Quotes

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

I'd make a bad preacher.

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.