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...

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

It’s possible, if the economics are right, … When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of fun.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It’s a soup I love being immersed in.

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.

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...

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

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

I had a slight touch of Tourette’s, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

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.

I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

I said, ‘You’re from Chicago, home of the blues. Here’s a nice blues record from a local band,’

I accept sceptics, you’ve got to have challenges.

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.

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.

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.

This is just the beginning, … Obviously we’re going to have the House of Blues Foundation involved in subsidizing the employees’ down there livelihood.

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

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

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.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s.

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.

‘Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

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

People love gentle larceny.

The city of Chicago was a character in the movie, as depicted by Landis and I think all of us, in the affection we had for it. It really is one of the characters of...

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

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

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

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.

So often you don’t even notice it.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

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

You know, I’ve sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

We’re on a mission from God,

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

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don’t go there and do experiments.

Hygiene is important. That’s one of my failings. So I’m always being called on that.

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...

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.

I do want to say a special hello to my neighbor Mr. Erskine. But you have to be a Flames fan in Calgary.

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.

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.