JOHN BELUSHI - QUOTES AND FACTS

There once was a man called John. Who had a strange thing about the town called Bonn. He just did not like this lo-cal - in fact he smacked a big cow - and sited the lyrics from 'The Battle of the Somme'. True story, it was told to me by a water buffalo who snorted coke with the aforementioned Mr Belushi. If you want to know what else he told me, have a look at this...


Belushi: A Biography



John Belushi Quotes:

• 'The stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing' - on life
• 'I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can' - to the audience at the Universal Amphitheatre, where the Blues Brothers performed their first concert.
• 'Wise Up!' - something that he wrote whilst signing autographs.
• 'It's so quiet up here you could hear a mouse get a hard-on' - Continental Divide 
• 'Seven years of college down the drain' - Animal House
• 'No Coke. Only Pepsi' - Saturday Night Live Sketch
• 'How much for the women? We want to buy the women' - The Blues Brothers
• 'But noooooooooooooo!' - Saturday Night Live Newsreader.

John Belushi Facts:

• Full Name: John Adam Belushi
• Born: 24th January 1949 Died: March 5th 1982
• Occupation: Comedian, Actor, and Musician
• Family: Judy Belushi (Wife); James Belushi (Brother)
• Known Inspirations: Lucille Ball
• Other Known Fact:
• Interred at Abel's Hill Cemetery in a unmarked grave. Though he does have a star at Mann's Chinese Theater.
• Judged new friends by asking them if he could borrow $20.
• Just before his death, he was rewriting a script called 'Noble Rot'.
• John made a 'cameo appearance' on 'Police Squad' - drowning whilst the end credits rolled. However, because he died a month or two before this episode was supposed to be aired, this clip was never shown.
• He was supposed to play the part of Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters - a part that Bill Murray eventually played because of John's death. Moreover, it is alleged to be believed that he was also meant to have the James Woods role in 'Once Upon A Time In America'.
• Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were both great friends - they created the 'Blues Brothers' together, starred in many films side by side, and lived next to each other as well.
• The last two actors to see him alive on the day he died, were Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
• John's epitaph reads as follows: "He made us laugh, and now he can make us think.
• John appeared with Michael O'Donoghue in the first Saturday Night Live Sketch - it was called 'Wolverines'.
• He was portrayed by Michael Chiklis in the bio-pic 'Wired' (click here for review).