Christie Hefner Quotes

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

Christie Hefner

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• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Age
  • Me
  • King

• It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Proud

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Best
  • Road
  • Messy

• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Done
  • Kids

• I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • People
  • Years
  • Model

• I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Bad
  • Thought

• In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Contract

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • History
  • Rights
  • Greatest

• No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Mercy

• I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Listening

• This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life

• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  

  Alan Ball
  • World

• Films are just consumables.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Holocaust

• For keeping hair long and healthy, I like to use silk pillowcases; they conduct less heat and keep your ends less frayed. Also, I sleep with my hair in a very loose top bun to keep my ends away from my body heat. This also keeps your hair from getting tangled at the nape of your neck.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hair

• The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Real
  • War

• It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • College
  • President
  • Dumb

• The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • The Wizard of Oz

• I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

  

  Christie Hefner