I was more of a weightlifter.

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…

— Tommy Chong

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,…

— Tommy Chong

We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.

— Tommy Chong

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

— Tommy Chong

I believe that all marijuana is medical.

— Tommy Chong

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my…

— Tommy Chong

I'm a hybrid.

— Tommy Chong

I've always been into improvisation.

— Tommy Chong

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black…

— Tommy Chong

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

— Tommy Chong

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…

— Tommy Chong

Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it.

— Tommy Chong

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

— Tommy Chong

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

— Tommy Chong

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

— Tommy Chong