DAN AYKROYD

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'd make a bad preacher.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

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

People love gentle larceny.

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.

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

Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.