Dan Aykroyd Quotes

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

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

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.

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

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

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

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

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

Greetings and death to our enemies.

Hygiene is important. That’s one of my failings. So I’m always being called on that.

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

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.

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.

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

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada – timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

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.

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

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.

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

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

People love gentle larceny.

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

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.

I had a slight touch of Tourette’s, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

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

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

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

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

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

I think I’m a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

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

I don’t like people lying to me. I don’t like people who don’t return my calls. I don’t like people who won‘t give me a straight answer. I don’t like those kinds of people, and I’ve been vocal about it.

‘Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

Hygiene is important. That’s one of my failings. So I’m always being called on that.

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

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

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.

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

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 live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.

I’d make a bad preacher.

You know, I’ve sold a lot of bad movies in my time.