Hugh Hefner Quotes

I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful.

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

I moved into the Playboy Mansion at 18 years old.

To this day people will say, 'What do you think about doing 'Playboy?'' I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.

Hef was very protective of the women who went to the Mansion.

Bill Cosby was one of the first people I met at the Mansion, shortly after I met Hef in 1968.

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting notice] that said "Tracee Ellis Ross type," but [the producers] didn't want to see me. I've been in this industry long enough to know that even if someone wants to promise me something, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. There are so many things at play. But it was flattering and exciting.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.