Tommy Chong Quotes

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

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

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.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

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.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

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.

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

Boredom is a disease, too.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

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

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

I only smoke maybe a nug a day.

I've always been into improvisation.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was more of a weightlifter.

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.

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.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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