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 guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
