118 Famous Quotes By Hugh Hefner For A Carefree Life
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.
The business end of business has never interested me.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
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.
If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.
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.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
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.
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.
In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago,
Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.
Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.
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.
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.
I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.
I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.
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 another quarter century.
They must be doing something right up there in Canada.
I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.
What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.