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
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
-- 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
But on the other hand, pot is the best recreational substance for teenagers, athletes, people who have naturally high adrenaline.
-- Tommy Chong
But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
-- Tommy Chong
Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
-- Tommy Chong
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
-- 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
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
-- 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
I was the original guy that started that group, Bobby Taylor was, I started off with a group called The Shades we were in Calgary.
-- Tommy Chong
I'm as clean as a whistle.
-- 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
Just recently up in Utah, some guy got 55 years for selling an ounce of pot to an undercover agent.
-- 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
No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.
-- 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
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
-- Tommy Chong
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
-- Tommy Chong
They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
-- Tommy Chong
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
-- 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
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
-- Tommy Chong
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
-- Tommy Chong
Ya, we had a number one record, ya we, there's a lot of history there, we uh, we discovered the Jackson Five, opening for us one place.
-- Tommy Chong
You can't do a lot of things when you're high. Like, you can't shoot a movie. You can't be an actor in a movie.
-- 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



