Hugh Hefner Quotes

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

A lot of people know me, but they don't know me well.

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

Your image in sports will always matter.

Representation is everything.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.

People have a different impression sometimes because of the way I'm on court, but outside, I'm nothing like that.

I'm not a ball hog at all. It may look like it, but I'm not.

My reputation is a media creation.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.