Dan Aykroyd Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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  Fun, Pills, News

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• 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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  Hair, Long, Shade

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• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

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  Batteries, Acid, Used

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• 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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  Media, People, Focus

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• 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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  Money, Kids, College

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• 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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  Believe, Survival, Consciousness

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• James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown !

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  Music, Player, House

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• 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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  Writing, Car, Motorcycle

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• 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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  Jobs, Firsts, Civil Service

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• Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

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  Money, Minimum Wage, Minimum

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• 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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  Beautiful, Sea, Purple

  "Soul survivor" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2007.

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• I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

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  Inspirational, Morning, Get Real

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• I'd make a bad preacher.

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  Preacher

  "Soul survivor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2007.

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

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  Mother, Games, Ships

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• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

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  Videogame, Format

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

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  Snow, National Parks, Canada

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• 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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  School, Character, Play

  "Dan Aykroyd for 'Christmas with the Kranks'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 24, 2004.

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• 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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  Mean, Black And White, Tv Shows

  "Dan Aykroyd Talks Vodka, 'SNL' And Hellhound Blues". Interview with Kenneth Hein, www.forbes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• 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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  Iphone, Laptops, Pins

  "Dan Aykroyd: Ghostbusters 3 Should Film By Next Year". Interview with Dan Milano, abcnews.go.com. April 23, 2013.

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• 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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  Film, Makers, Experiments

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

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  Kids, House, Research

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

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  Entertainment, Ends, Entertainment Business

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Survival, Grandfather, World

  "Q&A: Dan Aykroyd Is Keeping Ghostbusters 3 Alive". Interview with Michael B. Dougherty, www.esquire.com. December 4, 2012.

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