26 Great Quotes By Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian-American film, stage and television actor, writer, comedian, musician, and producer. He earned an ‘Academy Award’ nomination for his role in ‘Driving Miss Daisy.’ From 1975 to 1979, he appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as an original member of the ‘Not Ready for Prime Time Players.’ He starred and conceived ‘Ghostbusters,’ a supernatural comedy film. He is also an entrepreneur and has co-founded ‘Crystal Head Vodka’ brand and ‘House of Blues’ chain of music venues. Take a look at quotes by Dan Aykroyd on belief, books, race, time, challenges, law, heart, police, humor, family, friends, joy, people, money, dignity, etc.
You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
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.
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.
I'd make a bad preacher.
I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.
I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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.
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.
Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.