Cheech Marin quotes

Cheech Marin is an American comedian, actor, and writer, widely recognized as one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. His unique humor and distinctive voice contributed to the pair’s success in movies, television, and music. He has also become an advocate for Chicano culture and a collector of Chicano art. Here are 18 of his quotes:

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

Cheech Marin

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Cheech Marin

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

Cheech Marin

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

Cheech Marin

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

Cheech Marin

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

Cheech Marin

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

Cheech Marin

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

Cheech Marin

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Cheech Marin

It is a very physically and mentally torturous process. It goes 18-20 hours a day, and if you're stoned during that whole period, you're not going to make a good movie, because you just won't have the stamina to physically and mentally do that. And it's every day. So we didn't get stoned making the record, never stoned on stage. But we were very disciplined artists about what we were doing. It didn't magically happen. Well, it did magically happen, but not without effort.

Cheech Marin

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

Cheech Marin

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

Cheech Marin

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

Cheech Marin

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.

Cheech Marin

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Cheech Marin