Dan Aykroyd Quotes
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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People love gentle larceny.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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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.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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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.
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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.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
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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.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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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.
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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.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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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.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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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.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.