Tommy Chong Quotes

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

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

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

I've always been into improvisation.

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

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.

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

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

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.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.

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.

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

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

Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.

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

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

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.'

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

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.

I smoke a little pot, every day, and I'm healthy as can be.

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.

We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

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

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

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.

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

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

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.

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

Once you're a felon you're a target.

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.

We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top on down. You know, it's built based on lies. However, the marijuana industry itself, because it was an underground industry, showed us the way we could exist on this planet.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.

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

You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!

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

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.'