Quotes By 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 to crowded.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

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

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

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

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

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

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

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.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

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

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

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

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?

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

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

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.