Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefneris an American adult magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. Hefner is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a former journalist for Esquire. Hefner is also a World War II veteran. He is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made multi-millionaire, he is now worth over $43 million, because of his success for creating the Playboy magazine. Hefner is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 April 1926
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
The business end of business has never interested me.
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.
I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number.
We're separated by our myths.
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.
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.
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.
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.
I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''