Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
-
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
-
I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
-
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
-
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
-
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
-
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
-
Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
-
My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
-
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
-
What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
-
Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
-
I started a big part of my career in Vegas.
-
There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
-
In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.
-
Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.
-
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
-
I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.
-
Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
-
I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
-
Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.
-
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
-
I played comedies and dramas.
-
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
