Dan Aykroyd

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Greetings and death to our enemies.”

“Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.”

“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.”

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

“I'd make a bad preacher.”

“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.”

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

“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.”