Quotes from Tommy Chong

The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.

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

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.

I'm a hybrid.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

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

I've always been into improvisation.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

I support Bernie [Sanders] and I love his approach.

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

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

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.

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

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.