Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American adult magazine publisher and businessman, the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. Read full biography of 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.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
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... →
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
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... →
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... →
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
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... →
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
The business end of business has never interested me.
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... →
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American adult magazine publisher and businessman, the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises.