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

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

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

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

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

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

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

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

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.

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

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Some days you just get lucky… Other days you wait patiently for luck to happen

My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I’d believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.