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Tommy Chong
Canadian
Actor
About the author
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
#Being
They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#World
#Entertainment
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Trying
#Cause
#Night
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,
Canadian
Actor
#First
#Teen
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Country
#France
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Citizenship
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#American
#Justice
#Lies
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Comedy
#Funny
No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Day
Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Will
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Art
#World
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Bachelors
But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Exercise
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Home
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Questions
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Music
#Girls
I'm as clean as a whistle.
Tommy Chong,
Canadian
Actor