Best Cheech Quotes & Sayings

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. — Cheech Marin

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am. — Cheech Marin

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home. — Cheech Marin

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork. — Cheech Marin

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it. — Cheech Marin

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day. — Cheech Marin

I was interested in a lot of subjects from very early on. And that's uniquely Chicano because every Chicano I knew always had three jobs. — Cheech Marin

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. — Cheech Marin

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually. — Cheech Marin

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. — Cheech Marin

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. — Christopher Moore

I'm old enough to make my own decisions. — Cheech Marin

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

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return! — Cheech Marin

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. — Cheech Marin

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie. — Cheech Marin

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada. — Cheech Marin

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year. — Cheech Marin

One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world. — Cheech Marin

I drive an S80 Volvo; it's one of those real flashy cars. No, I just like it because I like a nice, cush ride; the Volvo is really cush, and it's powerful and fast. — Cheech Marin

My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon - cost 100 bucks. — Cheech Marin

Jim Cummings, Whoopie Goldberg & Cheech Marin make up this famous Disney threesome. — Alex Trebek

I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race. — Cheech Marin

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part. — Garth Brooks

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

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger. — Cheech Marin

Rich white guys. That's the true minority. — Cheech Marin

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication ... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it. — Cheech Marin

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

Mexicans are quasi-legal. — Cheech Marin

If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.' — Cheech Marin

It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars. — Cheech Marin

Cheech and Chong Vs. HAL
"I can't do that Dave."
"Dave's not here, man"
"That does not compute. Dave"
"No man, Dave isn't here!!"
... "I'm sorry Dave but that is incorrect"
"No man, Dave's not here!!"
"Daisy, daisy, ... I'm self terminating now Dave ... "
"No man, dave's not ... Is he gone? — Neil Leckman

By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper! — Cheech Marin