Cheech Marin famous quotes

05-13-2025

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

#Art #Emotional #Intellectual
I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.
-- Cheech Marin

#Growing Up #Kids #Citizens
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

#Country #Credit #Proud
Convenience is the American way.
-- Cheech Marin

#Way #Convenience
I'm old enough to make my own decisions.
-- Cheech Marin

#Decision #Enough
I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.
-- Cheech Marin

#Kids #Want #Cabinets
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

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

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

#Mexican #Guy #Yeah
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
-- Cheech Marin

#Lying #Order #Fields
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
-- Cheech Marin

#Boys #Choir #Members
I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
-- Cheech Marin

#Valleys #Half #Grew Up
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

#Hero #White #All Time
Hey, I was raised in the church.
-- Cheech Marin

#Church #Hey #Raised
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

#Guy #Hollywood #Borders
Mexicans are quasi-legal.
-- Cheech Marin
You can't suppress Bodily Functions
-- Cheech Marin

#Truth #Bodily Functions #Function
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

#Needs #Records #Return
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

#Cards #Movement #Resistance

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