My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful. – Hugh Hefner
Someone once asked, ‘What’s your best pickup line?’ I said, ‘My best pickup line is, ‘Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.’ – Hugh Hefner
I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. – Hugh Hefner
I guess I’m the most successful man I know. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the world. – Hugh Hefner
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 puritanism is still there. – Hugh Hefner
I remain very much connected to my childhood… I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. – Hugh Hefner
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That’s what makes me feel whole. – Hugh Hefner
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. – Hugh Hefner
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
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. 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
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
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
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. – Hugh Hefner
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
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
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
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