Quotes from Dan Aykroyd

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.

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.

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.

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

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

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

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.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

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

I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.

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.

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

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

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

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

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

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

People love gentle larceny.

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

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.

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

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.

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.