The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Woody Harrelson: Larry Flynt

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• Larry Flynt : Who is this magazine for, anyway? I mean, you know, it's like if you don't make twenty thousand plus a year - you don't jerk off. Seven million people buyin' it, and nobody's readin' it. Gentlemen, "Playboy" is mocking you.

• Larry Flynt : If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you.

• Larry Flynt : I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.

• Isaacman : You don't see me running around, pissing off everybody we're trying to get to help us.

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, well, you can walk and you can fuck and I'm in this chair! And I got money, okay, and I got money and that gives me the power to shake up this system.

  Isaacman : Well, find somebody else to help you the; because, this is not what I signed on for. I don't even know what we're engaged in anymore, Larry. If you get on that plane, I quit.

  Larry Flynt : Alan, don't be so melodramatic. You don't wanna quit me. I'm your dream client: I'm the most fun, I'm rich and I'm always in trouble.

• [Isaacman on the phone with Flynt] 

  Alan Isaacman : Listen, I'm sitting here with the eminently reasonable District Attorney of the state of Georgia.

  [Larry makes an off screen comment on the other end of the line] 

  Alan Isaacman : Right. He's very impressed by your conversion, he wants to cut us a plea bargain.

  Larry Flynt : A plea bargain? Because I've found God?

  Isaacman : Larry, listen to me for a second: Don't argue with me on this, ok. Just say yes because I've pulled a lot of strings to make this happen.

  Larry Flynt : Is he sitting there with you?

  Isaacman : Yes, he is.

  Larry Flynt : Would you do me a favor? Just tell that miserable old gray-haired bastard to go fuck himself, we're going to trial.

  Isaacman : Ok, right.

  Larry Flynt : Oh, and praise the lord.

• Blow Dried Jerk : Uh, Mr. Flynt? I don't wanna step on your toes but things have changed since you were actively running the company. I mean I look back at the stuff you did in the 70s and it was uh sorta racy and crazy. But the country is different now. Reagan has rebuilt America and the moral majority is gaining power.

  Larry Flynt : You're fired.

  Blow Dried Jerk : Excuse me?

  Larry Flynt : You get the fuck out of my building. Doug get him out of here. You blow dried jerk mother fucker. Take him out of here and throw him in the incinerator, cut him to little pieces and feed him to the animals out there. Get out of here.

• Larry Flynt : [frustrated at the photographer]  Look, we're not running a flower shop here. We're selling the girl. So stop playing with all the props and pillows and flowers and just shoot the girl.

  Stills Photographer : [to the model during a photo shoot]  Let's go for the leg thing spread your legs a little wider.

  Larry Flynt : [Walks up to the model and spreads her legs even wider]  There, that's exactly what we want, that's perfect a woman's vagina has just as much personality as her face.

  Stills Photographer : But you can't show the genitalia.

  Larry Flynt : [disappointed, confused]  Why not?

  Jimmy Flynt : He's right. Legally, you can't show it.

  Larry Flynt : [to Jimmy]  Shut up.

  Larry Flynt : Are you religious man?

  Stills Photographer : Yeah.

  Larry Flynt : You believe God created man?

  Stills Photographer : Yeah.

  Larry Flynt : And God created woman?

  Stills Photographer : Yeah.

  Larry Flynt : Surely the same God created her vagina, and who are you to defy God? Just shoot it.

• Larry Flint : Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.

• Althea : I had an epiphany once, Larry.

  Larry Flynt : What was that?

  Althea : When my daddy shot my entire family in the head and I was the only one to identify the bodies, and I was sent to an orphanage full of good Christian nuns who shoved my face into their pussies with their cruxifixes on for eight goddamn years!

• Isaacman : Larry, thousands of people petition the Supreme Court, OK? Thousands.

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, and our case is as good as any.

  Isaacman : Our case is better than most, you're missing my point, and that is they will never pick you. Because you're a nightmare. They're afraid if they let you in there, you're gonna wear a diaper, or throw oranges at the justices, and they should be, Larry, because in all the times you've gone to the court asking for help, you've never once demonstrated any respect for its institutions and procedures.

• Larry Flynt : If you don't like Hustler magazine, don't read it.

• Simon Leis : Mr. Flynt, can you please turn to page 77? Can you describe to the jury what is on that page, please sir?

  Larry Flynt : It's a picture of Santa Claus.

  Simon Leis : What is Santa Claus doing?

  Larry Flynt : He's talking to Mrs. Claus, and holding in his hand what appears to be a large, erect penis.

  Simon Leis : And could you read the caption underneath that cartoon, please?

  Larry Flynt : "This is what I've got to ho-ho-ho about."

• Larry Flynt : [incredulously]  25 years? All I'm guilty of is bad taste.

• Larry Flynt : What is more obscene: Sex or war?

• Larry Flynt : Why do *I* have to go to jail to protect *your* freedom?

• Larry Flynt : These are my friends - lots of money, lots of friends.

• Mantke Clerk : Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

  Larry Flynt : No.

  Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : No?

  Larry Flynt : Your honor, I'm an atheist. I can't very well, uh, swear to a God I don't believe exists.

  Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : Mr. Flynt, you are a handful.

  Larry Flynt : I know, your honor.

• Larry Flynt : I got money, which gives me the power to shake up the system.

• Larry Flynt : [Walking past protesters protesting outside his strip club]  Thank you all for coming welcome to my establishment, we welcome Christians in here too.

• Larry Flynt : [Looking at the first issue of the Hustler newsletter]  What'd you think?

  Jimmy Flynt : How much do they cost?

  Larry Flynt : [shakes his head]  Will you forget money for one second what'd you think?

  Jimmy Flynt : What I think depends on how much they cost

  Larry Flynt : This is the first Hustler newsletter it's all for the man on the go and man about town here's news service and pictures

  Jimmy Flynt : It's a magazine how are you going to pay for that?

  Larry Flynt : Don't interrupt me when I'm talking

• Althea : [Flipping through an issue of Playboy]  Her tits look nice

  Larry Flynt : They look nice but they don't look real. I don't understand this magazine fuzzy pictures, articles on I don't know what the hell their talking about

• Althea : [after calculating their profits]  take off your pants

  Larry Flynt : [looks up after looking photo negatives with a magnifying glass]  Why?

  Althea : [Shows him the total profit amount]  Because I've never fucked a millionaire before

• Larry Flynt : [to his parents while showing them around his new mansion during a 4th of July party]  Do you know how many rooms I have here?

  Pa Flynt : How many?

  Larry Flynt : Twenty four rooms, do you know who else has twenty four rooms?

  Pa Flynt : The president?

  Larry Flynt : Hugh Hefner

• Larry Flynt : [Giving a speech for Americans for Free Press]  Murder is illegal but if you take a picture of somebody committing the act of murder they'll put you on the cover of Newsweek, you might even win a Pulitzer Prize and yet sex is legal everybody is "doing it" or everybody wants to be "doing it". Yet if you take a picture of two people in the act of sex or if you take a picture of a woman's naked body and they'll put you in jail. Now I have a message for all you good moral Christian people who are complaining that breasts and vaginas are obscene, but don't complain to me, complain to the manufacturer and Jesus told us not to judge, I know you're going to judge anyway so judge sanely, judge with your eyes open. Politicians and demigods like to say sexually explicit material corrupts the youth of our country yet they lie, cheat, steal and start unholy wars. I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty yet it is growing, To go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity. With all the taboos attached to sex it's no wonder we have the problems we have, it's no wonder why we're angry and violent genocidal.

• Larry Flynt : I wanna appeal the Falwell case.

  Alan Isaacman : This is over. Over!

  Larry Flynt : No, it's not over. We can go higher.

  Alan Isaacman : Higher?

  Larry Flynt : The Supreme Court. Yeah, give them a call.

  Alan Isaacman : It's not that simple, Larry, thousands of people petition the Supreme Court, okay? Thousands.

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, and our case is as good as any.

  Alan Isaacman : Our case is better than most. But you're missing my point, and my point is: they will never pick you. Because you're a nightmare. They're afraid if they let you in there, you're gonna wear a diaper, or throw oranges at the justices. And they should be, Larry. Because in all the times you've gone to the court asking for help, you've never once demonstrated any respect for its institutions and procedures. So as far as they're concerned, you're just a pig.

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, well you always said, and it's the principle: "A pig has the same rights as a president."

  Alan Isaacman : yeah, yeah, yeah... You know, people get tired of a pig.

  Larry Flynt : Bullshit! You're scared, Alan! You're scared! You're letting these guys steamroll all over us!

  Alan Isaacman : Look, it's not just them, Larry, okay? It's me! It's me! I am not taking you! Lawyers dream about a case like this in front of the Supreme Court, they dream of it. And they would probably hear us, if you want the truth. But I am not going with you! I have been giving you my best since back when people were laughing at you. And every time I come in there now, you fuck me with this bullshit circus act! I won't do it again. I can't. I'm not gonna do it in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. Your sentimental speeches and your cornball patriotism, they don't work on me anymore, Larry, because I don't believe you. I don't believe you.

  Larry Flynt : You're my friend, Alan. We're friends. You know, I would love to be remembered for something meaningful.

• Larry Flynt : I turned the whole world into a tabloid! Here I come!

• Larry Flynt : She ain't bad. She ain't legal either.

  Jimmy Flynt : Yes she is, I saw her ID.

  Larry Flynt : Look, you stupid briar-hopper, my dog could get an ID... from my goat.

• Althea : You said yourself it's not so bad being poor.

  Larry Flynt : Fuck you Althea, you go be poor.

• Simon Leis : [Referring to the Santa Claus cartoon while in court]  Do you think the founding fathers had a cartoon like this in mind when they wrote the first amendment to our Constitution?

  Larry Flynt : [while on the witness stand]  No but I don't think they had Playboy in mind or people either for that matter because I saw a couple of four letter words in there a few weeks back.

  Simon Leis : But isn't a community allowed to set its own standards?

  Larry Flynt : No that's just the disguise for censorship. This country belongs to me just as much it belongs to you, if you don't like Hustler Magazine, don't read it.

  Simon Leis : I don't but what about our innocent children that gaze upon it in our grocery stores?

  Larry Flynt : If a kid gets caught drinking beer in a tavern, we don't ban Budweiser across the nation.

• Georgia Prosecutor : How could you as a good Christian defend this filth?

  Larry Flynt : [while on the witness stand]  I don't have to. It may be wrong in some people's opinion to portray women the way I have, but it's not illegal it may not be the smartest thing to have too much to drink but it's not illegal. Abortion may be more morally "repugnant" but right now but it's not illegal. If you want to change the law that's another discussion but our right to decide for ourselves cannot be restricted. George Orwell said," if liberty means anything it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear", America is the strongest country in the world today only because it is the freest country and if it ever loses its sight on its basic heritage and the principles involved then we will no longer be free

• Roy Grutman : Would please state your full name for the record?

  Larry Flynt : [while on the witness stand, intentionally making a mockery of the court by responding disrespectfully and jokingly]  Christopher Columbus Cornwallis, IPQ, Harvey, APU.

  Roy Grutman : That's very interesting, but aren't you also known as Larry Flynt?

  Larry Flynt : AKA Jesus H. Flynt Esquire.

  Roy Grutman : Are you the publisher and Editor in Chief of Hustler Magazine?

  Larry Flynt : I am the publisher of the most tasteless, sleaziest, most disgusting, greatest porn magazine on the face of the earth.

  Roy Grutman : Thank you. Do you have a version of organized religion?

  Larry Flynt : [intentionally misunderstanding his question]  A virgin?

  Roy Grutman : No, a "version". You heard me correctly. A "version".

  Larry Flynt : You bet your sweet ass I do.

  Roy Grutman : Do you think that gives you the license to mock the leaders of great religious movements?

  Larry Flynt : Goddamn right.

  Roy Grutman : I hold in my hand exhibit B, which is a typed, written script of a Campari ad. When you approved this ad, did you have any specific knowledge that the Reverend Falwell had ever engaged in sexual intercourse with his mother in an outhouse?

  Larry Flynt : No, but I have a photograph of Falwell having fellatio with a sheep.

  Alan Isaacman : [to the judge]  Your honor, my client is in a heavily medicated and mentally agitated state. We will stipulate that no such document exists.

  Larry Flynt : [intentionally mispronouncing his name]  I have it and that Mr. Fartwell is a liar.

  Roy Grutman : My client's name is Jerry Falwell. "Jerry Falwell".

  Larry Flynt : [jokingly]  That's what I said, Jerry Fartwell.

• Larry Flynt : I oughta move somewhere, where perverts are welcome.

• Jimmy Flynt : [Calculating their profits and expenses]  How we doing?

  Larry Flynt : Bad, we're broke

  Jimmy Flynt : How could we be broke?

  Larry Flynt : These giveaways are killing us the limousine the smorgasbord was a stupid idea and all your buddies are coming in here every night drinking for free

  Jimmy Flynt : You don't have to bring my friends into this

  Larry Flynt : There's the secret right there if we can somehow let people know what great ladies these girls are

  Jimmy Flynt : You can't advertise that

• Larry Flynt : [On the microphone speaking to the patrons inside his strip club]  Give a big hand to Alison from Tennessee

  [Jimmy starts clapping to persuade the patrons to clap] 

  Larry Flynt : thank you Jimmy I don't know if all of you feel the way I do right now but we deliver the finest ladies in southern Ohio don't you think? And now give a warm welcome to Hilary and Melissa they're here all the way from Paris and London... Kentucky.

• Larry Flynt : I run the Hustler strip clubs I'm sure you've heard of them?

  Old Printer : No.

  Larry Flynt : That's why I need a newsletter I figure we'd run eight ten pages per issue.

  Old Printer : With nothing but nudity pictures?

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, on nice smooth paper like this

  [Points to a sample picture on the wall] 

  Larry Flynt : .

  Old Printer : That's called "slick".

  Larry Flynt : Slick yeah.

  Old Printer : But I could get into trouble printing these.

  Larry Flynt : Why?

  Old Printer : Because there are laws you've got to have kind of text like Playboy does.

• Larry Flynt : [in his office]  What's your name?

  Althea : [sitting on his couch, Lying]  Jane.

  Larry Flynt : We have a policy in this club I have a suspicion that you're not of age

  [showing her the fake ID] 

  Larry Flynt : this could cost me my liquor license I'd have to close that shop and fire a lot of people.

  Althea : I am one second one millimeter one second from being legal.

  Larry Flynt : Well, I'd have to ask you to come back when that second and millimeter is up.

  Althea : That'd be tomorrow morning then.

  Larry Flynt : I like the way you dance don't get me wrong.

  Althea : Can I ask you a question?

  Larry Flynt : Shoot.

  Althea : I heard you slept with every single girl in every one of your clubs as sort of a prerequisite I was wondering if that was true

  Larry Flynt : Well it isn't entirely untrue if that's what you mean.

  Althea : I'm curious why you haven't taken a stab at me?

  Larry Flynt : I just met you five minutes ago.

  Althea : It was six. Tick, tick, tick.

  [after having had sex, referring to both of them ejaculating] 

  Althea : Come on one more time

  Larry Flynt : [still her legs wrapped around his legs, the zipper to his pants is still open]  One more time? Even Superman has his limits.

  Althea : That's the problem with men your batteries run out women's batteries never run out.

  Larry Flynt : [lightly pushes her head backwards]  Well, then go fuck a woman then.

  Althea : I do fuck women.

  Larry Flynt : [startled, surprised]  Excuse me?

  Althea : You are not the only one in this club that has slept every girl in this club.

• Jimmy Flynt : [Referring to Althea, while eating breakfast]  So after one night she's moving in with you?

  Larry Flynt : She had it rough, grew up in an orphanage.

  Trucker : [interrupting their conversation]  Hey buddy, are the guy with the sex paper?

  Larry Flynt : I might be.

  Trucker : I love the pictures how do I subscribe?

  Larry Flynt : Where'd you come up on the newsletter?

  Trucker : I found it in the bathroom of a gas station, it came in pretty handy.

  Larry Flynt : I'm glad we can help you out but it's not for subscription.

• Larry Flynt : [to his staffers, as they remained silent]  What's wrong?

  Arlo : The distributer called and unfortunately we had only a twenty five percent sell through

  Larry Flynt : Someone want to translate that for me?

  Jimmy Flynt : What that means their sending back a hundred fifty thousand copies

  Larry Flynt : [slams the champagne bottle into the cake]  SHIT!

• Jimmy Flynt : [referring to losing most of their money on printing and distributing their first copy of Hustler magazine]  You're just stupid dumb briar hopper what made you think you can pull this off anyway?

  Althea : At least he has balls

  Jimmy Flynt : What he needs is brains

  Althea : [sarcastically]  Einstein's speaking I'm so impressed

  Larry Flynt : So one more issue and we're wiped out?

  Jimmy Flynt : Yeah

  Althea : I believe you're the one that got us into this debt in the first place

  Larry Flynt : You think just because it's your birthday you can be a bitch?

  Althea : Yeah I think I'm fifty feet tall and you have a needle dick

  [Larry slaps her] 

  Althea : Don't ever hit me like that, don't talk to me like that I'll go back and I'll eat dog food

• secretary : [On the intercom]  I have a man on the line from Italy claiming he has photos of Jackie O

  Larry Flynt : Put him through

  Italian photohgrapher : [On the phone]  Is this Mr. Flynt?

  Larry Flynt : Yeah this Mr. Flynt

  Italian photohgrapher : Listen, I was watching that damn island for four months and one the cabana door opens and out comes Jackie O with nothing on

  Larry Flynt : Are sure its Jackie O?

  Italian photohgrapher : Yeah sure

  Larry Flynt : What'd you see?

  Italian photohgrapher : You see absolutely everything and she's a good one this isn't a Mamie Eisenhower, a regular lady bird

  Larry Flynt : Oh my God, first pussy

• Althea : [after having sex with other women in the Jacuzzi]  Do you ever think about getting married?

  Larry Flynt : There's nothing more certain to ruin a beautiful relationship than marriage, as soon as you get that ring around the finger suddenly you have an "ownership situation", prior to that its friendly you're "kind" to each other as much as I love you I want a variety of different pussy.

  Althea : What did we just do?

  Larry Flynt : That's what I'm talking about.

  Althea : Do you think I'm talking about monogamy?

  Larry Flynt : You're not talking about monogamy?

  Althea : Of course not how could you misunderstand me? I don't want to get married and stop living the way we live I think the way we live is great, nothing would change.

  Larry Flynt : Why now?

  Althea : Because I only want to be with you you're the only man I want to be with I want this ring on my finger tell me you love me above all other women.

  Larry Flynt : You want a ceremony?

  Althea : I want to go to a church, you are my life.

  Larry Flynt : You are my life too right here right now, I can't speak for twenty years down the line.

  Althea : I can, just forget about it.

  Larry Flynt : [genuinely proposing]  Listen to what I'm saying, will you marry me?

  Althea : [assuming he was joking]  That's not funny.

  Larry Flynt : I'm not joking will you do me the honor of being Mrs. Larry Flynt?

• Judge Morrissey - Cincinnati Court : Do you have anything to say before I sentence you?

  Larry Flynt : Your honor, you have not made one intelligent decision during the course of this trial and I don't expect one now: knock yourself out.

• Althea : [Visiting Larry in prison]  Hi baby.

  Larry Flynt : You look so beautiful.

  Althea : How are you?

  Larry Flynt : I miss you.

  Althea : I miss you too, you got any girlfriends in here? You got calluses on your hands?

  Larry Flynt : I fantasize about you all the time

  Althea : Our bed is so empty, what can I do to get you out of here?

  Larry Flynt : Isaacman says this is no way it's going to hold up

  Althea : What if he's wrong? What if you don't get out until the year two thousand and I'm old fat and ugly and you don't love me anymore

  Larry Flynt : You will never be old fat and ugly I promise you

• Larry Flynt : [In a magazine store in front of news reporters]  Good hardworking news dealers are being threatened and intimidated: if that's not censorship I don't know what is. What we're going to do is I'm going to pay this news dealer one thousand dollars. I am renting this store for the next twenty fours. I am in charge now and if anybody wants to purchase a copy of Hustler Magazine

  Arlo : [In disguise and hands Larry money]  Mr. Flynt, may I please buy a copy of Hustler Magazine?

  Larry Flynt : [Takes the money, before the police watching nearby arrest Larry]  Yes you can sir, here is the Hustler Magazine I'm selling to this gentleman

• Larry Flynt : Vicki Morgan was Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress and Alfred introduced her to all of Reagan's cabinet buddies and she was a real party girl and they really liked her if you know what I mean: the thing about Vicki she was a little bit "naïve" and she started writing a book about these orgies they were having and then next thing she's murdered but what these white house killers don't realize that Vicki kept some videotapes of these orgies and these videotapes are pure carnality, filthy I have never seen anything, well I have but most people haven't.

  Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : What has this have to do with the DeLorean trial?

  Larry Flynt : Technically nothing but I had those tapes and this tape and it made me think of it

• Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : Alright, Mr. Flynt, are you willing to calm down now, sir?

  Larry Flynt : [nods]  Mhm.

  Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : Now, if I take that gag off of you, are you gonna show me and my courtroom staff the courtesy and respect that we deserve?

  Larry Flynt : [nods]  Mhm.

  Judge Thomas Alva Mantke : Alright, Marshal.

  [Marshall takes the gag off of Flynt. Flynt takes an orange out of his pocket and throws it at the Judge] 

  Larry Flynt : Fuck you, you son of a bitch!

• Larry Flynt : [referring to Ruth's brother, President Jimmy Carter]  Do you think he ever read my publication?

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : Do you remember the interview he gave "Playboy" magazine? The one where he admitted that he had "lust in his heart"?

  Larry Flynt : You know, I was especially proud of that.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : I'm sure you were, but Oral Roberts wasn't and Billy Graham wasn't and they took out after him in public. So, I don't think he's a big fan of adult magazines. But, you know, Larry, I'm more ambivalent about what you do. Because, I think that sexuality *is* a God given gift.

  Larry Flynt : I have to agree with you.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : You know, when I counsel Pentecostal women in bad marriages, I don't take the Bible out. I say to them, "get some make up, get yourself some curlers, make yourself beautiful because Jesus wants you to be beautiful."

  Larry Flynt : Yeah, well, that... your somthin'. You surprise me

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : Larry, what was your childhood like? You know, sometimes things happen to us when we're very young that can hurt for many years after.

• Isaacman : [after leaving jail]  I've gotten the bail all taken care of so you don't have to worry about that, we should talk about the case after you have a little rest.

  Larry Flynt : Wait, who hired you?

  Isaacman : Your wife hired me.

  Larry Flynt : My wife? Are you "doing" her?

  Isaacman : [confused]  Wait a minute, am I what?

  Larry Flynt : I'm just kidding, I like you, give me a call after you graduate from law school.

  Isaacman : I'm out of law school.

  Larry Flynt : How old are you? Twenty two?

  Isaacman : Twenty seven, Harvard law school, three years in the public defender's office obviously you can get whoever you want to represent you in this case let me say this: your pretty far out there even for the guys that do a lot of this stuff. I am interested in your case, the problem you've got is definitely what I know best and I am good at what I do.

  Larry Flynt : You specialize in porn?

  Isaacman : No, I don't specialize in porn, I'll be perfectly honest I don't particularly like what you do, I specialize in civil liberties.

• Larry Flynt : [In Alan's office]  I don't understand why they singled me out.

  Isaacman : This case is bigger than just you and your magazine in your case what's a little more troubling is this "organized crime" charge.

  Althea : Organized crime? Larry's not in the mob.

  Isaacman : I've got to ask you this one time: do you have any connection to organized crime?

  Larry Flynt : Absolutely not.

  Isaacman : Then this is a completely bullshit charge but we have to take this seriously because you can conceivably looking at seven to twenty five years in prison.

  Althea : My cousin Bobby shot a preacher in the back, he got six months for it.

  Larry Flynt : Bobby shot a preacher?

  Althea : Yeah. You didn't know that?

  Larry Flynt : What denomination?

  Althea : Baptist.

  Larry Flynt : I always liked that kid.

  Isaacman : Can we discuss the fate of Cousin Bobby later, Larry? I think we need to discuss this very seriously, if you want my opinion.

  Larry Flynt : I am serious, I'm taking notes

• Arlo : [During a nude photo shoot of Althea]  I've got bad news: Georgia prosecutor arrested a few news dealers for selling Hustler Magazine and other retailers are getting nervous so their taking off our magazines off their stands

  Larry Flynt : Fuel the jet and alert the Georgia media that "the Calvary is on the way"

• Larry Flynt : [In a magazine store in front of news reporters]  Good hardworking news dealers are being threatened and intimidated: if that's not censorship I don't know what is. What we're going to do is I'm going to pay this news dealer one thousand dollars. I am renting this store for the next twenty fours. I am in charge now and if anybody wants to purchase a copy of Hustler Magazine

  Arlo : [In disguise and hands Larry money]  Mr. Flynt, may I please buy a copy of Hustler Magazine?

  Larry Flynt : [Takes the money, before the police watching nearby arrest Larry]  Yes you can sir, here is the Hustler Magazine I'm selling to this gentleman.

• Larry Flynt : [During a staff meeting after looking at their Hustler Magazine's advertisement that is offering one million dollars to help President John F. Kennedy's killers to justice]  That's good

  Jimmy Flynt : So we're going to pay a million bucks?

  Larry Flynt : Why not? If it catches the killer, I think it's worth it. Moving on "asshole of the month"

  Althea : Jerry Falwell

  Arlo : you always say Jerry Falwell

  Althea : Jerry Falwell is always an asshole that's why Arlo

  Chester : how about this month we do Anita Bryant?

  Arlo : I say Gerald Ford

  Jimmy Flynt : [jokingly but intentionally insulting his brother]  I say Larry Flynt

  Larry Flynt : [Althea covers her mouth while laughing]  Yeah I like that bro everybody thinks I'm an asshole.

• Larry Flynt : [speaking for the first time, over the phone]  This is Larry Flynt

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : Praise the lord. I've found you

  Larry Flynt : Hallelujah, what can I help you with?

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : We have a mutual friend: a television producer and he suggested we get together. He thought you and I could "hit it off."

  Larry Flynt : I don't understand you're an evangelist, I'm a smut peddler

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : I don't believe in labels. I believe you and I could teach other a lot, so are you free for dinner tomorrow night?

  Larry Flynt : I have a hectic schedule

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : You know what's nice about people like you and me? We can do anything we want.

• Ruth Carter Stapleton : [while having dinner]  Do you go to church?

  Larry Flynt : Yeah particularly the big holidays Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : [confused]  New Year's Eve?

  Larry Flynt : They don't have church on New Year's Eve? Ok you've proven I'm a liar, I never go

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : It's not important, that's only a ritual and I believe going straight to the teachings of Jesus

  Larry Flynt : Would you call yourself a "faith healer"?

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : Goodness no, I do spiritual healing. I don't mend bones, I mend troubled souls

  Larry Flynt : That's a relief because I though you would be one of those fakes, scare the kids "wicked this, wicked that"

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : "Hell fire", damnation", that sort of thing? That kind of talk is almost "unforgiveable"

  Larry Flynt : I'd say we have something in common

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : Actually there's something else we have in common

  Larry Flynt : What's that?

  Ruth Carter Stapleton : We're both trying to release people from sexual repression

• Larry Flynt : [During a staff meeting]  There will no more photo spreads of women alone from now on. Sex will be presented in a more natural setting with the man in the picture: a Genesis pictorial for example, Adam and Eve "getting it on" in the Garden of Eden and next month I'd like to have pretty girls floating on big glass crucifixes

  Jimmy Flynt : I plead with you not to do this if you do this, this company is going to be worth nothing

• Jimmy Flynt : Who the hell would want to shoot you anyway, Larry?

  Larry Flynt : Who wouldn't want to shoot me, Jimmy?

• Althea : Why? Why?

  Larry Flynt : 'Cause I had an epiphany. Okay?

  Althea : A - a what?

  Larry Flynt : An epiphany.

  Althea : Where'd you learn that damn word? This woman crookin' you so hard, she's teaching you, what, English now?

• Larry Flynt : Do you think that I wanted Jesus to tap me on the shoulder? I'm the last guy who wanted that. I'm gettin' laid six times a day. I got limousines and a jet and I'm sittin' on a mountain of money. You think I wanted God tappin' me on the shoulder? I'm the last guy who wanted that!

• Althea : Will you get me some bananas?

  Larry Flynt : [singing]  Yes, I'll get you bananas.

  Althea : Thank you, honey.

• Larry Flynt : My mind is fine. God is working through me. Don't you see that?

• Jimmy Flynt : Who the hell would wanna shoot you anyway, Larry?

  Larry Flynt : Who wouldn't want to shoot me, Jimmy?

  Arlo : I'd say it was the CIA.

  Althea : Why?

  Arlo : Because of the million dollars that was offered for JFK's killers.

  Althea : No. I think it was the interracial photo spreads - and the KKK.

  Jimmy Flynt : The KKK? It wasn't the KKK. It was the Mob!

  Arlo : The extreme religious right. They're the ones that control all of the fanatics.

  Alan Isaacman : Well, you've just named every American psycho.

• Larry Flynt : Free expression is absolute.

• Roy Grutman : Do you have an aversion of organized religion?

  Larry Flynt : "A virgin"?

  Roy Grutman : No. Aversion. Aversion! You heard me, Mr. Flynt. An *aversion to organized religion?

  Larry Flynt : You bet your sweet ass I do.

• Larry Flynt : [During a staff meeting after looking at their advertisement that is offering one million dollars to help President John F. Kennedy's killers to justice]  That's good

  Jimmy Flynt : So we're going to pay a million bucks?

  Larry Flynt : Why not? If it catches the killer, I think it's worth it. Moving on "asshole of the month"

  Althea : Jerry Falwell

  Arlo : you always say Jerry Falwell

  Althea : Jerry Falwell is always an asshole that's why Arlo

  Chester : how about this month we do Anita Bryant?

  Arlo : I say Gerald Ford

  Jimmy Flynt : [jokingly, intentionally insulting his brother]  I say Larry Flynt

  Larry Flynt : [amused, Althea covers her mouth while laughing]  Yeah I like that bro, everybody thinks I'm an asshole.

  Chester : [after laughing]  that's true

  Larry Flynt : [while giving him a serious look]  is that right?