Tommy Chong Quotes

Never steal jokes.

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I got the copyright for love!

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.