Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Aykroyd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian comedian Dan Aykroyd.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, musician and writer. He was an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live (1975–1979). He performed with his friend John Belushi in a musical sketch on SNL, the Blues Brothers, which they turned into an actual performing band and then featured in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Aykroyd also conceived the premise for, and starred as Dr. Raymond Stantz in, Ghostbusters (1984), which spawned a sequel and eventually an entire media franchise.

Canadian - Comedian | Born: July 1, 1952

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

Dan Aykroyd

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

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

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

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

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

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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'd make a bad preacher.

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

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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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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.

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Greetings and death to our enemies.

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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

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

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

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

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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

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

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

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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.

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People love gentle larceny.

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

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I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

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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.

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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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Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

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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.

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One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement - I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.

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My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

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

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I believe that at the moment of death, that the soul is released in a molecular form, that actually goes into the - the fabric of the universe, the structure of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen because we're electrically - we're galvanic, we're electrochemical.

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Comedy makes everything accessible. Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill. What's fun about it? Nothing. And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything's going to connect.

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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.

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

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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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Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!

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

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