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.

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.

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.

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

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

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I`ve got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

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

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

[eulogizing his good friend and fellow Blues Brother, the late great John Belushi] "...A good man, but a bad boy."

[When asked if he ever gets recognized for anything]: "I have this young female demographic that recognizes me as the dad from My Girl (1991) and this older female demographic that recognizes me as the son from Driving Miss Daisy (1989)."

"Chevy Chase was the first to make it huge - people would recognize him in the street: `Hey Chubby Chase, look at Chubby Chase`. Everybody knew who he was. He was the first to start on a movie career and maybe [John Belushi] was a little jealous. But I liked Chevy and was sorry to see him leave "Saturday Night Live" (1975)]. He`s one of the master physical comedians. I think you can place Buster Keaton and Chevy in the same sentence and be pretty safe there."

[On The Blues Brothers (1980) sequel] "Basically they gave us the budget to make the film. We got paid zero. I wanted James Belushi to play the part Joe Morton did, but he was doing a TV show and couldn`t do it. But Morton did a great job and John Goodman did a good job. I think it`s a good companion piece to the first film."

"`Ghostbusters 3` will never happen. Unless Bill Murray agrees. Everyone else would love to do it--Columbia, [Harold Ramis], myself, [Ivan Reitman]. It`s a five-way rights situation and Bill is locking up his piece of the rights because he feels that was work he just wants preserved and he doesn`t want it diluted. As an artist I can respect that."

"If it hadn`t been for Carleton [University], The Blues Brothers (1980) would never have been made."