He is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. He is a successful businessman, known the world round for his partnership in the “House of Blues” chain of nightclubs and the founding of his own Canadian winery.
But it was his eccentric run on “SNL” during its golden first years – as well as his formidable onscreen partnership with real-life best friend, John Belushi – that would remain perhaps his greatest comedic legacy. (1952 – )
– Dan Aykroyd Quotes –
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.
~ Dan Aykroyd
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.
~ Dan Aykroyd
There’s huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They’ve been filmed and are on video.
~ Dan Aykroyd
You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
~ Dan Aykroyd
Greetings and death to our enemies.
~ Dan Aykroyd
We’ve got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we’ve got to support those young men and women who are out there protecting our big, fat, bloated lifestyle.
~ Dan Aykroyd
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I said, ‘You’re from Chicago, home of the blues. Here’s a nice blues record from a local band.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I’m never completely happy with anything I`ve done. If I`ve been successful with 80 percent of everything I`ve done, then I`m doing all right by the audience and myself.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I get off on fantasy. I love fiction of all kinds. I`ve always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. I think those areas are a never-ending source for story ideas.
~ Dan Aykroyd
Then we were singing along, and that’s really when the Blues Brothers were born.
~ Dan Aykroyd
My attitude has always been, “Hey, wouldn`t it be funny if -.” If this makes me laugh, maybe somebody else will laugh at it, too. That`s really where I`ve always come from.
~ Dan Aykroyd
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. It`s not always easy doing that.
~ Dan Aykroyd
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.
~ Dan Aykroyd
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.
~ Dan Aykroyd
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
~ Dan Aykroyd
