Hugh Hefner

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'

— Hugh Hefner

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

— Hugh Hefner

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

— Hugh Hefner

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

— Hugh Hefner

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

— Hugh Hefner

There was a moment when I was having s*x with four Playmates and I almost swallowed a Ben Wa ball.

— Hugh Hefner

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate…

— 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…

— Hugh Hefner

When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a…

— Hugh Hefner

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if…

— Hugh Hefner

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal…

— Hugh Hefner

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your…

— Hugh Hefner

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you…

— Hugh Hefner

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply…

— Hugh Hefner

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related…

— 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…

— Hugh Hefner

My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I…

— Hugh Hefner

I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We…

— Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I…

— Hugh Hefner

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection…

— Hugh Hefner

One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm…

— Hugh Hefner

My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies. The images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life. Helping…

— Hugh Hefner

For the record, I have sex on a weekly basis. And I did throughout my two-and-a-half years with Crystal.

— Hugh Hefner

I'll keep having sex until I'm 100. I have three girlfriends, a TV show and a hugely popular men's magazine.

— Hugh Hefner

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

— Hugh Hefner

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.

— Hugh Hefner

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the…

— Hugh Hefner

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

— Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

— Hugh Hefner

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.

— Hugh Hefner

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

— 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 think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Hugh Hefner