The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Brett Harrelson: Jimmy Flynt

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Quotes 

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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 : [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?

• 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 : [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?