Top 67 Quotes About Aykroyd
#1. I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
Dana Carvey
#2. 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.
Mike Myers
#3. If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.
Joe Piscopo
#4. I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
Chris Pratt
#5. It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I'd always thought the three scariest words in the English language were 'starring Dan Aykroyd.'
Joe Queenan
#6. 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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#7. Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.
J.J. Scarisbrick
#8. 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.
Simon Hoggart
#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
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#12. 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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#13. Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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#14. 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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#15. There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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#16. Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
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#17. Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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#22. I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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#23. I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
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#24. 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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#25. Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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#29. People these days can't seem to tolerate one moment without entertainment!
Samuel A. Aykroyd
#30. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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#36. I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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#37. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.
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#38. I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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#39. I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.
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#40. You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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#41. Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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#53. 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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#54. I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.
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#59. Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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