Cheech Marin Quotes

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
Cheech Marin

Reason, Dangerous, Harmless

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin

Battle, Comedy, Won

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

Movies, Else, Satan

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

Experience, Guy, Hollywood

Hey, I was raised in the church.
Cheech Marin

Church, Hey, Raised

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

Love, Work, Time

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

Half, South, Valley

I love voice work.
Cheech Marin

Love, Work, Voice

I was an altar boy and a choir member.
Cheech Marin

Boy, Choir, Altar

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.
Cheech Marin

Made, Said, Student

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

Made, Trouble, Movement

Mexicans are quasi-legal.
Cheech Marin

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
Cheech Marin

Marriage, Start, Again

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

Hard, Why, Team

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

Lie, Sometimes, Order

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

Time, Art, Experience

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

Guy, Yeah, Mexican

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

Bad, Movie, Played

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Nationality: American

Born: July 13, 1946

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