Top 40 Tommy Chong Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Tommy Chong

2. “Boredom is a disease, too.”

— Tommy Chong

3. “I’d rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.”

— Tommy Chong

4. “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.”

— Tommy Chong

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

— Tommy Chong

6. “Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.”

— Tommy Chong

7. “You can’t become a dictator through checks and balances.”

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8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

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

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12. “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.”

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13. “Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there’s no language barrier.”

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14. “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

15. “Marijuana is a proven medicine.”

— Tommy Chong

16. “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

17. “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

18. “I’ve been a good boy, I’ve never really been convicted of serious crime.”

— Tommy Chong

19. “Once you’re a felon you’re a target.”

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20. “Jail was probably the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “There’s a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.”

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23. “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.”

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

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25. “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.”

— Tommy Chong

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

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27. “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.”

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28. “I was more of a weightlifter.”

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29. “I’m as clean as a whistle.”

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30. “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.”

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

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32. “I’ve always been into improvisation.”

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33. “Well I don’t know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don’t think you can lose your citizenship though.”

— Tommy Chong

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

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

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

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37. “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

38. “Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.”

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39. “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

40. “Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”

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

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42. “Cigarettes, I won’t do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush – if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn’t need a costume. You’d give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There’s no doubt about it.”

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45. “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.”

— Tommy Chong

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

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

— Tommy Chong