Best 75 quotes of Tommy Chong on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

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

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.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

Boredom is a disease, too.

By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.

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

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.

[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.

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

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

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

I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

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

I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.

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

Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.

Marijuana is a proven medicine.

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

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

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

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.

Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.

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

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.

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.'

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