--- title: "24 Playboy Quotes By Hugh Hefner" description: "24 Playboy quotes by Hugh Hefner. Plus more from Hugh Hefner and more Playboy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/hugh-hefner-2102_best_my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh_372402.png" --- > [My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh-hefner/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/hugh-hefner-2102_best_my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh_372402.png) > [Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-nice-girls-like-sex-too/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/hugh-hefner-2102_girl_playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-n_2032236.png) > [I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-very-connected-to-the-american/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/hugh-hefner-2102_american-dream_i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-v_2538911.png) > [Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with-where-you-are/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/hugh-hefner-2102_inspirational_loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with_1185091.png) > [I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-am-not-primarily-an-entrepreneurial-businessman-i-m-primarily-a/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/hugh-hefner-2102_business_i-am-not-primarily-an-entrepreneurial-bu_2589017.png) > [Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-exploits-sex-the-way-sports-illustrated-exploits-sports/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8a/hugh-hefner-2102_playboy_playboy-exploits-sex-the-way-sports-illu_1349447.png) > [I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-raised-in-a-truly-typical-midwestern-home-with-a-lot-of/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e24/hugh-hefner-2102_creation_i-was-raised-in-a-truly-typical-midweste_1645518.png) > [There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/there-s-almost-a-rorschach-test-quality-about-writing-about-playboy/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/hugh-hefner-2102_about_there-s-almost-a-rorschach-test-quality_1715653.jpg) > [Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/part-of-the-concept-behind-the-magazine-was-breaking-barriers-and-it/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/hugh-hefner-2102_behind_part-of-the-concept-behind-the-magazine_376193.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-isn-t-like-the-downscale-male-bonding-beer-swilling-phenomena/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/hugh-hefner-2102_beer_playboy-isn-t-like-the-downscale-male-bo_799290.png) > [I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-ve-never-thought-of-playboy-quite-frankly-as-a-sex-magazine-i/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/hugh-hefner-2102_important_i-ve-never-thought-of-playboy-quite-fran_2954967.png) > [Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-very-clearly-from-the-outset-has-fought-against-the/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/854/hugh-hefner-2102_historical_playboy-very-clearly-from-the-outset-has_1041597.png) > [When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/when-penthouse-and-hustler-came-along-they-confused-what-i-was-trying/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/hugh-hefner-2102_confused_when-penthouse-and-hustler-came-along-th_1943953.png) > [The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-women-s-movement-kind-of-came-out-of-left-field-in-the-1960s-and/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/857/hugh-hefner-2102_1960s_the-women-s-movement-kind-of-came-out-of_446402.png) > [Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/women-have-traditionally-been-either-put-on-pedestals-or-damned-as/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/hugh-hefner-2102_coins_women-have-traditionally-been-either-put_3215671.png) > [Maxim and FHM and the 'laddie books' are really just a downscale version of Playboy. The men's field is really hot today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/maxim-and-fhm-and-the-laddie-books-are-really-just-a-downscale/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a79/hugh-hefner-2102_books_maxim-and-fhm-and-the-laddie-books-are-r_1383223.png) > [The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-notion-that-playboy-turns-women-into-sex-objects-is-ridiculous/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/hugh-hefner-2102_attraction_the-notion-that-playboy-turns-women-into_882126.png) > [I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-that-from-the-very-beginning-it-wasn-t-simply-what-made/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cea/hugh-hefner-2102_art_i-think-that-from-the-very-beginning-it_372517.png) > [If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-playboy-ever-loses-its-editorial-balls-then-it-will-deserve-to-be/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72e/hugh-hefner-2102_alive_if-playboy-ever-loses-its-editorial-ball_2092506.png) > [As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/as-ray-bradbury-a-longtime-contributor-to-playboy-said-a-long-time/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21a/hugh-hefner-2102_bradbury_as-ray-bradbury-a-longtime-contributor-t_1932854.png) > [With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/with-the-end-of-communism-and-the-opening-of-third-world-markets-the/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/711/hugh-hefner-2102_american-dream_with-the-end-of-communism-and-the-openin_2240959.png) > [I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-raised-in-a-typical-puritan-midwestern-methodist-home-and-there/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/hugh-hefner-2102_change-things_i-was-raised-in-a-typical-puritan-midwes_1586618.jpg) > ['Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-was-not-a-sex-magazine-as-far-as-i-was-concerned-sex-was/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/hugh-hefner-2102_far_playboy-was-not-a-sex-magazine-as-far-as_611192.png) > [The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-notion-that-playboy-exploited-women-because-we-showed-them-in/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/hugh-hefner-2102_beautiful_the-notion-that-playboy-exploited-women_226805.jpg) ## Other authors on Playboy ## More by Hugh Hefner > [My life is an open book. With illustrations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/my-life-is-an-open-book-with-illustrations/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-difference-between-marilyn-monroe-and-the-early-pamela-anderson/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [If I ever try to get married again, shoot me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-i-ever-try-to-get-married-again-shoot-me/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-people-who-had-the-most-impact-on-me-when-i-was-young-were-freud/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/part-of-the-sexual-revolution-is-bringing-rationality-to-sexuality/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/after-world-war-all-we-got-was-a-lot-of-conformity-and-conservatism/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-writing-and-cartooning-and-writing-short-stories-from-grade/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/at-a-very-early-age-i-started-a-cartoon-scrapbook-actually-when-i-was/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-age-if-you-are-healthy-i-think-age-is-largely-a-number-my/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-whole-1950s-notion-was-find-the-right-girl-get-married-move-to/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/you-stay-in-touch-with-the-boy-who-dreamed-impossible-dreams/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-m-bored-of-the-hanky-panky-i-m-still-active-but-it-s-different-i/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-notion-that-playboy-exploited-women-because-we-showed-them-in/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/living-in-the-moment-thinking-about-the-future-and-staying-connected/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-very-influenced-by-the-musicals-and-romantic-comedies-of-the/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/playboy/hugh-hefner/#itemlist", "name": "24 Playboy Quotes By Hugh Hefner", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My best pick-up line is \"My name is Hugh Hefner.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hugh Hefner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh-hefner/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/hugh-hefner-2102_best_my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh_372402.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/hugh-hefner-2102_best_my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh_372402.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/hugh-hefner-2102_best_my-best-pick-up-line-is-my-name-is-hugh_372402.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My best pick-up line is \"My name is Hugh Hefner.\"” — Hugh Hefner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hugh Hefner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-nice-girls-like-sex-too/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/hugh-hefner-2102_girl_playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-n_2032236.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/hugh-hefner-2102_girl_playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-n_2032236.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/hugh-hefner-2102_girl_playboy-was-founded-on-the-notion-that-n_2032236.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.” — Hugh Hefner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hugh Hefner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-very-connected-to-the-american/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/hugh-hefner-2102_american-dream_i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-v_2538911.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/hugh-hefner-2102_american-dream_i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-v_2538911.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/hugh-hefner-2102_american-dream_i-think-the-playboy-philosophy-is-very-v_2538911.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.” — Hugh Hefner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hugh Hefner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with-where-you-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/hugh-hefner-2102_inspirational_loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with_1185091.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/hugh-hefner-2102_inspirational_loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with_1185091.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/hugh-hefner-2102_inspirational_loneliness-doesn-t-have-much-to-do-with_1185091.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.” — Hugh Hefner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. 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