Quotes by Tommy Chong

• They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
• 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.
• 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.
• You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?
• Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
• Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
• Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
• The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
• No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.
• Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
• Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
• Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
• The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
• But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
• If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.
• Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
• I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
• I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
• 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'm as clean as a whistle.