Top 100 Hefner's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!
Enrique Iglesias
#5. It was like looking for a Natural Blonde at Hugh Hefner's
Aimee Duffy
#6. 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
#7. I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.
Hugh Hefner
#8. Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
Jessica Hahn
#9. 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
#10. I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
Hugh Hefner
#11. I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.
Hugh Hefner
#12. No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
Christie Hefner
#13. Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
Christie Hefner
#15. Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.
Hugh Hefner
#16. 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
#17. Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Hugh Hefner
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.
Christie Hefner
#29. I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
Hugh Hefner
#30. It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Hugh Hefner
#31. Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner
#32. The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.
Hugh Hefner
#33. For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.
Hugh Hefner
#34. I'm glad to be part of that brand and be a part of something that Hugh Hefner did. And it's a sisterhood - all the girls are sisters. You go there and it's a big old family. Once you're a Playmate you're a Playmate for life.
Alyssa Arce
#35. There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.
Hugh Hefner
#36. I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.
Hugh Hefner
#37. I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
Hugh Hefner
#38. At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table
Christie Hefner
#39. The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality
which became America's
was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.
Hugh Hefner
#40. It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
Hugh Hefner
#41. When I got the call from [Hugh] Hefner ... I thought, "Wow - at 40, they still want me?" And I thought it's almost an inspiration - like a "you go, girl" moment. I feel empowered that you can be married and and have three children and still be sexy and confident and look great.
Cindy Margolis
#42. The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
Christie Hefner
#43. Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
Hugh Hefner
#44. I truly believe that age
if you're healthy
age is just a number.
Hugh Hefner
#45. Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
Hugh Hefner
#46. The business end of business has never interested me.
Hugh Hefner
#47. I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
Christie Hefner
#48. I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
Christie Hefner
#49. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
Hugh Hefner
#50. 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
#51. In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
Christie Hefner
#52. Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
Hugh Hefner
#53. I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
Hugh Hefner
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
Hugh Hefner
#57. 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
#58. The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!
Katie Price
#59. I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
Hugh Hefner
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.
Hugh Hefner
#63. The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Hugh Hefner
#64. I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
Hugh Hefner
#65. I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
Christie Hefner
#66. Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
Hugh Hefner
#67. I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.
Anna Nicole Smith
#68. He's hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate.
Ashlee Vance
#71. I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
Hugh Hefner
#72. We don't fight about money ... I hate to see people fight about money.
Christie Hefner
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.
Christie Hefner
#76. My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
Hugh Hefner
#77. I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
Christie Hefner
#79. I remain very much connected to my childhood ... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
Hugh Hefner
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.
Hugh Hefner
#83. I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.
Christie Hefner
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.
Hugh Hefner
#87. 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
#88. I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
Nora Ephron
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.
Christie Hefner
#93. I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.
Christie Hefner
#94. 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
#95. 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
#97. Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
Christie Hefner
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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