Top 100 Hefner Quotes
#1. My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
Hugh Hefner
#2. I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
Christie Hefner
#3. Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.
Hugh Hefner
#4. I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.
Hugh Hefner
#5. We don't fight about money ... I hate to see people fight about money.
Christie Hefner
#6. I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
Hugh Hefner
#9. He's hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate.
Ashlee Vance
#10. I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.
Anna Nicole Smith
#11. Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
Hugh Hefner
#12. I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
Hugh Hefner
#13. I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
Hugh Hefner
#14. The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Hugh Hefner
#15. Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.
Hugh Hefner
#16. I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.
Hugh Hefner
#17. Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
Gay Talese
#18. I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
Hugh Hefner
#19. The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!
Katie Price
#20. It was like looking for a Natural Blonde at Hugh Hefner's
Aimee Duffy
#21. Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.
Hugh Hefner
#22. I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
Hugh Hefner
#23. Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
Hugh Hefner
#24. I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.
Hugh Hefner
#25. I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
Christie Hefner
#26. I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
Hugh Hefner
#27. Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
Hugh Hefner
#28. I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.
Hugh Hefner
#29. Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
Christie Hefner
#31. I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.
Gloria Steinem
#32. But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
Christie Hefner
#33. I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.
Christie Hefner
#34. I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
Christie Hefner
#35. From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
Christie Hefner
#36. Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.
Woody Allen
#37. It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
Christie Hefner
#38. I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Christie Hefner
#39. I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door.
Julie Halston
#40. I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
Nora Ephron
#41. The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
Hugh Hefner
#42. Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.
Hugh Hefner
#43. My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
Hugh Hefner
#44. The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.
Hugh Hefner
#45. I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.
Christie Hefner
#46. I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.
Hugh Hefner
#47. I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.
Hugh Hefner
#48. I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Hugh Hefner
#49. I remain very much connected to my childhood ... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
Hugh Hefner
#51. Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.
Hugh Hefner
#52. Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Hugh Hefner
#53. My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
Christie Hefner
#54. When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
Hugh Hefner
#55. The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Hugh Hefner
#56. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
Hugh Hefner
#57. I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.
Marcel Dionne
#58. Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
Christie Hefner
#59. Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.
Hugh Hefner
#60. Beauty is everywhere
on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too
it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it.
Hugh Hefner
#61. The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
Hugh Hefner
#62. If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#63. I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was ... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.
Holly Madison
#64. Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket.
Jonathan Tropper
#65. Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
Jessica Hahn
#66. My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
Hugh Hefner
#67. I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
Hugh Hefner
#68. I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.
Hugh Hefner
#69. No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
Christie Hefner
#70. Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
Christie Hefner
#72. Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.
Hugh Hefner
#73. I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.
Hugh Hefner
#74. I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.
Hugh Hefner
#75. The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
Christie Hefner
#76. Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
Hugh Hefner
#77. In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
Christie Hefner
#78. Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.
Hugh Hefner
#79. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
Hugh Hefner
#80. I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
Christie Hefner
#81. I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
Christie Hefner
#82. The business end of business has never interested me.
Hugh Hefner
#83. Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
Hugh Hefner
#84. I truly believe that age
if you're healthy
age is just a number.
Hugh Hefner
#85. Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.
Hugh Hefner
#86. I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
Hugh Hefner
#87. I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.
Hugh Hefner
#88. I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.
Hugh Hefner
#89. The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
Hugh Hefner
#90. I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.
Hugh Hefner
#91. My life is an open book. With illustrations.
Hugh Hefner
#92. When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.
Hugh Hefner
#93. In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
Rachael Taylor
#94. If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.
Hugh Hefner
#95. Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.
Cindy Margolis
#96. My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.
Holly Madison
#97. Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.
Clive James
#98. I've nailed more women than I could count ... at least I think they were women
Hugh Hefner
#99. I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.
Hugh Hefner
#100. Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
Christie Hefner
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