Tommy Chong - biography

Biography

Tommy Chong is best-known for the following films:

Tommy Chong Quotes

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

“America is the audience. It’s the tiger. I’ll feed the hungry tiger. But I don’t wanna live in the same cage.”

“I was seven years old before I used a toilet that flushed. We had the kind of toilet where, when it was full, you covered it over and dug a new one.”

“Serious? Serious closes on Saturday!”

“I get really worried if we got all good reviews. You mean we fooled them all?”

“They’re like bouncers. In order to break up a fight, they have to start one first.”

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

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

“I’m as clean as a whistle.”

“But you can’t exercise and be high. It’s impossible.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“You know the Canadian definition of the perfect woman? She’s 4 ft high, got no teeth and has a flat head so you can rest your drink.”

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

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

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

“No. Maceo played sax, didn’t he, well they used to sit in.”

“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.”

“They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we’re vulnerable.”

“We were going to make The Corsican Brothers in Salzburg, but I said no. One really doesn’t feel funny in Austria.”

“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.”

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

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

Filmography

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