Dan Aykroyd Quotes
You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
-
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
-
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
I would like to see America some day.
-
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
-
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
-
I don't care about how much other actors get.
-
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
-
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
-
I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
-
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
-
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
-
The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
-
My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
-
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
-
He's protected the football, which is very important. I think he has made good decisions when things aren't there, which is really important. Everybody is going to hit something that's open. But when it's not there, Mark has played well.
-
When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.
-
You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
