Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is ‘My name is Hugh Hefner.’

Hugh Hefner

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

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

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

Hugh Hefner

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful.

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

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

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

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

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.

Hugh Hefner