Cheech Marin Quotes

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.

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.

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

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

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

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

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

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

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!

Convenience is the American way.

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.

Marijuana was a new phenomenon when we started. Now it's for everyone - doctors, lawyers, presidents.

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.

I think you can directly link chihuahuas to Dow Jones.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

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.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

I'm old enough to make my own decisions.

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.

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

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

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.