Tommy Chong Quotes & Sayings

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable. — Tommy Chong

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. — Tommy Chong

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world. — Tommy Chong

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy. — Tommy Chong

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet. — Tommy Chong

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants. — Tommy Chong

Once you're a felon you're a target. — Tommy Chong

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. — Tommy Chong

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. — Tommy Chong

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. — Tommy Chong

Marijuana is a proven medicine. — Tommy Chong

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded. — Tommy Chong

A lot of prophets have gone to jail. — Tommy Chong

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy. — Tommy Chong

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you. — Tommy Chong

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' — Tommy Chong

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back. — Tommy Chong

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit. — Tommy Chong

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances. — Tommy Chong

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place. — Tommy Chong

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy. — Tommy Chong

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. — Tommy Chong

I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it. — Tommy Chong

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it. — Tommy Chong

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane. — Tommy Chong

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though. — Tommy Chong

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. — Tommy Chong

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' — Tommy Chong

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it. — Tommy Chong

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts. — Tommy Chong

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. — Tommy Chong

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot. — Tommy Chong

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. — Tommy Chong

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band. — Tommy Chong

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. — Tommy Chong

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking. — Tommy Chong

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead. — Tommy Chong

'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was. — Tommy Chong

And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya ... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971. — Tommy Chong

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. — Tommy Chong

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. — Tommy Chong

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy. — Tommy Chong

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. — Tommy Chong

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. — Tommy Chong

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate ... but with music it's just music. — Tommy Chong

I was more of a weightlifter. — Tommy Chong

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. — Tommy Chong

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. — Tommy Chong

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. — Tommy Chong

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer. — Tommy Chong

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred. — Tommy Chong

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes. — Tommy Chong

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world. — Tommy Chong

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya. — Tommy Chong

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say. — Tommy Chong

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny. — Tommy Chong

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. — Tommy Chong

I've always been into improvisation. — Tommy Chong

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya. — Tommy Chong

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career. — Tommy Chong

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier. — Tommy Chong

I'm as clean as a whistle. — Tommy Chong

The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil. — Tommy Chong

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call. — Tommy Chong

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible. — Tommy Chong

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater. — Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself. — Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too. — Tommy Chong

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier. — Tommy Chong

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life. — Tommy Chong

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. — Tommy Chong

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. — Tommy Chong

So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested. — Tommy Chong