A biography for Dan Aykroydhasn’t been written yet.
“You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.”
“Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.”
“Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.”
“I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.”
“People love gentle larceny.”
“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.”
“You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.”
“I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.”
“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 have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.”
“The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.”
“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.”
“I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”