Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Barbi Benton
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
It's a hindrance in trying to get a serious acting role. The minute a producer has a script and my name comes up, they immediately think of 'Playboy,' 'Hee Haw,' 'Fantasy Island' and 'Love Boat.'
As for those who condemn Hef, he's done a great deal for women's lib and sexual liberation as well.
When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.
I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.
It took me five years to learn how to sing.
My real name is Barbara Klein and I'm from Sacramento.
Of course, I'm not exactly the girl next door.
When we first dated, I would not go home with Hef, so the only way that he could see me was by taking me out. We went out quite a bit.
My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.
At 35 women are at the bottom level of middle age but we can look like we are absolutely in our prime. Even if you're badly out of shape, you can put yourself in good shape in two years, maximum.
The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest, and they're playing my songs.
Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn't know half of them!
I honestly think that Hef had a lot to do with women making more money and getting better jobs. He's had a huge impact on the entire world, and I think that's for the better.
There are some things I like that Hef likes, too. For example, Colonel Sanders' chicken is a standby. I've never been able to figure out how to recreate the combination of herbs they use to flavor the crust.
Most of all, I want to be known as Barbi Benton, the singer, not as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.
People are surprised that I can walk and talk.
People recognized us together and our names were synonymous. Whenever you heard Barbi Benton, you think of Hugh Hefner. And I loved that. I was his girlfriend and he was my boyfriend.
It's not that I don't have talent. I've had four gold albums in Scandinavia and they never heard of me as anything but a singer.
I like nice things. I've always had nice things.
Hef has always been attracted to younger women. He loves to see the world through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time.
Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.
I like low-cut clothing because I am a believer that one should emphasize their best points.
I was also dating someone from UCLA and also I had another suitor, Jimmy Caan. So it was between my college boyfriend, Jimmy Caan and Hef. And Hef won. Within a few months, we were exclusive.
'Playboy Magazine' has been a devil's advocate for me. Because of the image and type-casting, it's harder to convince people that I can sing. Yet, I probably wouldn't have had the chance, had it not been for Playboy.
I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.
There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.
Frankly my parents didn't like him. They objected to the things he stood for. Besides, daddy and Hef are the same age.
But I'd like to be taken seriously as a singer.
I know that part of my success on stage is due to the fact that I've kept myself together.
When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.
Nobody thought I could do anything with a singing career... except my singing teachers, who were accustomed to hearing voices that could be transformed into something.
When I first met Hef, I didn't like him at all. I thought he was too old.
One never knows when the angels are coming to get you, but everybody has to go.
I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.
What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.
I would never fall in love with a ditch-digger.
With Hef it was a relationship. It's the world that made a big thing out of it.
I considered Hef a one-woman man.
I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.
I'd like to play Vegas as a head-liner.
Let's face it, sightseeing can be a bore at times.
I do two things every single day - I go running and then I do weight lifting.
I love clothes and jewelry. I'm the fashion lady type.
I like to perform in front of an audience.
I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.
I'm not really the star of 'Sugar.' I'm co-starring with two other girls, Marianne Black and Didi Carr. We play roommates in the series and we sing together professionally.
After three months of singing, Hef heard me practicing once. He tried to convince me to quit singing lessons because there was no chance of being good at it. Of course, I cried a lot when he said that, but it was my money that I was investing in lessons so I continued partly out of spite and partly because I really wanted to do it.
When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.
I'm very career-minded.
Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.
I think everyone should be creative in some way, otherwise you have no self-respect. That's why I believe in women working.
One thing I love is that I don't have a lot of people running around Hollywood saying 'I've had her,' because guys love to talk, especially about celebrities.
What I really want is to create a name based on my own accomplishments.
I've lost a lot of fat and that's through weight lifting.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have security. But Hef thinks I'm naive. He feels I'm vulnerable to kidnapping.
Bill Cosby was one of the first people I met at the Mansion, shortly after I met Hef in 1968.
Hef was very protective of the women who went to the Mansion.
Hef is boring to cook for. He likes a total of four main dishes: fried chicken, pot roast, pork roast and pork chop sandwich!
I don't wish to sound chauvinistic, but I feel the female body is beautiful to look at, more so than a male's.
My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They were wrong. It took me five years.
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