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

Dan Aykroyd

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Dan Aykroyd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 1
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Television Actor
Television Producer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Daniel Edward Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Dan Aykroyd
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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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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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I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.
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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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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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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
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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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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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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.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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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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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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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.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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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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I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
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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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