Tommy Chong

Actor

1938-05-24

Quotes by Tommy Chong

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I'm as clean as a whistle.

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• 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.

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

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

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