Richard Anthony Marin Quotes

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

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

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  Tags in Guy, Mexican

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Lie, Need, Sometimes

• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Marriage, Back, Come

• Mexicans are quasi-legal.

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• 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.

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• I was an altar boy and a choir member.

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  Tags in Boy, Choir, Altar

• I love voice work.

  Richard Anthony Marin

  Topics in Love, Work

  Tags in Voice

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

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

  Richard Anthony Marin

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  Tags in Time

• Hey, I was raised in the church.

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  Tags in 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.

  Richard Anthony Marin

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  Tags in Back, Kind

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

  Richard Anthony Marin

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  Tags in Battle, Did, Comedy

• The reason we’re so dangerous is because we’re totally harmless.

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  Tags in Reason, Dangerous, Totally

• 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!

  Richard Anthony Marin

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  Tags in Need, Did, Else

• 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.

  Richard Anthony Marin

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  Tags in Made, Trouble

Richard Anthony Marin (18)

Birth:	13th July, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Writer

About

Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin is an American comedian, actor and writer who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges. He has also voiced characters in several Disney productions, including Oliver and Company, The Lion King, It's Tough to be a Bug!, Cars, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

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