89+ Tommy Chong Quotes (Comedic, Iconic And Enduring)

Tommy Chong is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, director, activist, and musician. He is best known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's That '70s Show. He has also appeared in numerous other films and television shows, and has released several comedy albums.

Top 10 Tommy Chong Quotes

1. I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
2. So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.
3. You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!
4. 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.
5. Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
6. When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
7. Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
8. Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
9. Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
10. I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.

Tommy Chong Short Quotes

• Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
• I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
• I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.
• I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.
• I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain.
• Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.
• Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
• I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.
• I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
• I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.

Tommy Chong Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — 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. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — 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

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think. — Tommy Chong

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.' — 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

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

[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. — Tommy Chong

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger. — Tommy Chong

When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world! — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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

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. — Tommy Chong

I believe that all marijuana is medical. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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

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. — Tommy Chong

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.' — Tommy Chong

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. — 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

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

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along. — Tommy Chong

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

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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

I was more of a weightlifter. — 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

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

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. — Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too. — Tommy Chong

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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. — Tommy Chong

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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? — Tommy Chong

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

Marijuana is a proven medicine. — Tommy Chong

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

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

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

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

You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world. — Tommy Chong

Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it. — Tommy Chong

I support Bernie [Sanders] and I love his approach. — Tommy Chong

I only smoke maybe a nug a day. — 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

I'm as clean as a whistle. — Tommy Chong

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

We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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. — Tommy Chong

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Tommy Chong

1. Tommy Chong has taught us that with hard work and dedication, it is possible to make a successful career in the entertainment industry.
2. He has also shown us that it is important to stay true to yourself and not be afraid to take risks in order to achieve success.
3. Lastly, Tommy Chong has demonstrated the importance of using your platform to speak out for causes you believe in and advocate for positive change.