Quotes from Dan Aykroyd

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

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.

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

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

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

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

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.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

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.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

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.

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.

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.

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

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