I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view,… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I've always had a tremendously optimistic attitude about life, and the setbacks are never really setbacks for me, because I see it… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
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… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
I'm bored of the hanky-panky. I'm still active, but it's different, I like to play dominoes with my girlfriends. Having three beautiful women keeps… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share
