110+ Hugh Hefner Quotes On Bunnies, Playboy And Iconic

Hugh Hefner was an American publisher, businessman, and playboy. He was the founder of Playboy magazine, which he launched in 1953. Hefner was also known for his lavish lifestyle and for his many relationships with beautiful women. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Hugh Hefner on bunnies, love, playboy.

Top 10 Hugh Hefner Quotes

1. Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
2. Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
3. In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
4. If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
5. My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."
6. I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.
7. Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
8. I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
9. I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.
10. The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Hugh Hefner Image Quotes

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

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

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. — Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. — Hugh Hefner

My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner Short Quotes

• There are many roads to Mecca.
• Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.
• You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.
• You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
• I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.
• I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.
• I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.
• I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
• I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

Hugh Hefner Quotes About Love

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. — Hugh Hefner

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. — Hugh Hefner

I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can. — Hugh Hefner

It's hard to really compare new love and old love. — Hugh Hefner

Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About Playboy

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. — Hugh Hefner

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream. — Hugh Hefner

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

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. — Hugh Hefner

As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports. — Hugh Hefner

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art. — Hugh Hefner

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner

If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About People

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Hugh Hefner Legacy — Hugh Hefner

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

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect. — Hugh Hefner

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. — Hugh Hefner

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize. — Hugh Hefner

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. — Hugh Hefner

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels. — Hugh Hefner

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer. — Hugh Hefner

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself. — Hugh Hefner

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About Life

My life is an open book. With illustrations. — 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

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person. — Hugh Hefner

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it. — 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 is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. — Hugh Hefner

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit." — Hugh Hefner

Beauty is everywhere - on the campus, in the office, living next door... Nice girls like sex too - it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it. — Hugh Hefner

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. — Hugh Hefner

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life. — Hugh Hefner

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About Magazine

Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot. — Hugh Hefner

Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers? — Hugh Hefner

Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart. — Hugh Hefner

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 the romantic connection between male and female. — Hugh Hefner

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life. — Hugh Hefner

I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. — Hugh Hefner

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. — Hugh Hefner

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. — Hugh Hefner

'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle. — Hugh Hefner

When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About Married

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad. — Hugh Hefner

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married. — Hugh Hefner

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. — Hugh Hefner

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in. — Hugh Hefner

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual. — Hugh Hefner

If I ever try to get married again, shoot me. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Quotes About World

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. — Hugh Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. — Hugh Hefner

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. — Hugh Hefner

Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights. — Hugh Hefner

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

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

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. — Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. — Hugh Hefner

My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. — 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 managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are. — Hugh Hefner

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me. — Hugh Hefner

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. — 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 twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives. — Hugh Hefner

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. — Hugh Hefner

It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization. — Hugh Hefner

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else. — Hugh Hefner

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about. — Hugh Hefner

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions. — Hugh Hefner

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles. — Hugh Hefner

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. — Hugh Hefner

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s. — Hugh Hefner

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same. — Hugh Hefner

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed. — Hugh Hefner

We're separated by our myths. — Hugh Hefner

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time. — Hugh Hefner

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. — Hugh Hefner

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. — Hugh Hefner

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. — Hugh Hefner

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too. — 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 the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. — Hugh Hefner

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it. — Hugh Hefner

The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment. — Hugh Hefner

It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine. — Hugh Hefner

When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing. — Hugh Hefner

With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit. There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited. — Hugh Hefner

With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. — Hugh Hefner

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. — Hugh Hefner

I am in very good health. I've never felt better. — Hugh Hefner

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people. — Hugh Hefner

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. — 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 managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble. — Hugh Hefner

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. — Hugh Hefner

I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. — Hugh Hefner

I've never gotten enough credit! — 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 for expanding to other areas. — Hugh Hefner

Everybody marches to a different drummer. — Hugh Hefner

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished. — 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 tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that. — 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 that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely. — Hugh Hefner

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young. — Hugh Hefner

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago. — Hugh Hefner

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy. — Hugh Hefner

Life Lessons by Hugh Hefner

1. Hugh Hefner's work taught us that it is important to be true to yourself and to pursue your passions.
2. He also showed us the power of hard work and dedication, as he built a successful empire from his magazine, Playboy.
3. Hefner's legacy also reminds us of the importance of standing up for what you believe in, as he was an advocate for civil rights and free expression.