The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 quotes

Alan 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 **** 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.

Alan Isaacman

Well, find somebody else to help you then, 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.

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!

Althea

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.

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 **** out of my building. Doug, get him out of here. You blow-dried jerk mother****er. 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!

Jerry Falwell

What?

Yeah, Jerry, he's suing you.

Jerry Falwell

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

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

Jerry Falwell

Yeah, so?

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

Jerry Falwell

The depth of his depravity sickens me.

Larry Flynt

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.

Let's go for the leg thing spread your legs a little wider.

Larry Flynt

There, that's exactly what we want, that's perfect a woman's vagina has just as much personality as her face.

But you can't show the genitalia.

Larry Flynt

Why not?

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

Larry Flynt

Shut up. Are you religious man?

Yeah.

Larry Flynt

You believe God created man?

Yeah.

Larry Flynt

And God created woman?

Yeah.

Larry Flynt

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

Larry Flynt

What'd you think?

How much do they cost?

Larry Flynt

Will you forget money for one second! What'd you think?

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.

It's a magazine. How are you going to pay for that?

Larry Flynt

Don't interrupt me when I'm talking!

Larry Flynt

Do you know how many rooms I have here?

How many?

Larry Flynt

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

The president?

Larry Flynt

Hugh Hefner

Althea Leasure

Larry?

Larry Flynt

Yeah?

Althea Leasure

Take off your pants.

Larry Flynt

What?

Althea Leasure

Take off your pants.

Larry Flynt

Why?

Althea Leasure

Because I've never **** a millionaire before.

Isaacman

Larry, thousands of people petition the Supreme Court, okay? 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.

Isaacman

Listen, I'm sitting here with the eminently reasonable District Attorney of the state of Georgia. 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, okay? 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 **** himself, we're going to trial.

Isaacman

Okay, right.

Larry Flynt

Oh, and praise the lord.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help yo God?

Larry Flynt

No.

No?

Larry Flynt

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

Mr. Flynt, you are a handful.

Larry Flynt

I know, your honor.

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."

Alan Isaacman

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas. Freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of an individual liberty, but is essential to the quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. In the world of debate about public affairs, many things done with motives that are less than admirable are nonetheless protected by the first amendment.

Simon Leis

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Before we begin, I must apologize for the unpleasantness of this task. What you are about to see is going to take your breath away. "Hustler" magazine depicts men and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner. "Hustler" magazine depicts women and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner. "Hustler" magazine depicts Santa Claus posed in a lewd and shameful manner.