The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Burt Neuborne: Roy Grutman

Quotes 

• Jerry Falwell : What?

  Roy Grutman : Yeah, Jerry, he's suing you.

  Jerry Falwell : He's suing me? For heaven's sakes, on what grounds?

  Roy Grutman : Well, you xeroxed his ad, and you sent it out in a million fundraiser letters.

  Jerry Falwell : Yeah, so?

  Roy Grutman : But you didn't get his permission. And that's copyright infringement.

  Jerry Falwell : The depth of his depravity sickens me.

• 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.

• 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.