Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd,is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter and musician. He was an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live, as Elwood Blues of The Blues Brothers, and as Ray Stantz in Ghostbustersand Ghostbusters II. In 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 July 1952
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.
This is just the beginning, ... Obviously we're going to have the House of Blues Foundation involved in subsidizing the employees' down there livelihood.
It's cool to come to a town that is an American institution, that's always been a fun place, ... It's just a perfect fit for us to come here.
Bill would try anything - and get away with anything. He always looked as if he didn't particularly care, but he cared very much about what he did and how he did it.
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.
It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of fun.
I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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 think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.