Best Dan Aykroyd Quotes

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

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#2. 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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#3. I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

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

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

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

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

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

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#25. 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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#26. While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

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#27. I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

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

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

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#34. 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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