Quotes by Hugh Hefner

About Hugh Hefner:

Hugh Marston Hefner is an American adult magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. Hefner is a Chicago, Illinois native and a former journalist for Esquire. Hefner is also a World War II veteran. He is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made millionaire, he is now worth over $43 million. Hefner is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes and public issues.
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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 t...

Hugh Hefner

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

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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

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

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I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

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I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

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I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That purita...

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Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

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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.

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I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

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I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

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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

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.

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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.

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Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

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I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

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I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

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Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

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Author Bio

  • NameHugh Hefner
  • DescriptionAmerican magazine publisher
  • BornApril 9, 1926
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEditor; Journalist; Writer; Publisher
  • WorksPlayboy