Tommy Chong Quotes:- Tommy Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist, and comedian.
He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox’s That ’70s Show. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.
Inspirational Tommy Chong Quotes
“Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I’d kickback.”-Tommy Chong
“You can’t become a dictator through checks and balances.”-Tommy Chong
“Cigarettes, I won’t do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.”-Tommy Chong
“There’s a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.”-Tommy Chong
“Once you’re a felon you’re a target.”-Tommy Chong
“I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.”-Tommy Chong
“Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.”-Tommy Chong
“I’m as clean as a whistle.”-Tommy Chong
“I’m a hybrid.”-Tommy Chong
“The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we’ve brought more families together than Dr. Phil.”-Tommy Chong
Famous Tommy Chong Quotes
“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
“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
“Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.”-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 too crowded.”-Tommy Chong
“The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.”-Tommy Chong
“Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.”-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
“I’ve been a good boy, I’ve never really been convicted of serious crime.”-Tommy Chong
“The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It’s the height of any musical career.”-Tommy Chong
Funny Tommy Chong Quotes
“Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.”-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
“But you can’t exercise and be high. It’s impossible.”-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
“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
“No. Maceo played sax, didn’t he, well they used to sit in.”-Tommy Chong
“The funny thing is, Dennis Miller, got me back into comedy.”-Tommy Chong
“They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we’re vulnerable.”-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
“Well, I had an after-hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.”-Tommy Chong
Famous Tommy Chong Quotes About Film
“The jail was probably the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me.”-Tommy Chong
“A lot of prophets have gone to jail.”-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 always been into improvisation.”-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
“I’m just glad I can make a difference in someone’s life.”-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
“I was more of a weightlifter.”-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
“I’ve met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they’re all funny.”-Tommy Chong
Top 10 Tommy Chong Quotes And Sayings
“Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.”-Tommy Chong
“The way jazz works are 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
“I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.”-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
“Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.”-Tommy Chong
“What made me a comedian was that I wasn’t really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.”-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.’ Do 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
