Larry Flynt
If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, it will protect all of you.
A line from Larry Flynt
[Incredulous after prison sentence]
Twenty-five years? All I'm guilty of is bad taste.
More lines from Larry Flynt
10 quotes Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt
If you don't like Hustler magazine, don't read it.
Larry Flynt
[to Alan]
You don't want to quit me, I'm your dream client: I'm the most fun, I'm rich, and I'm always in trouble.
Larry Flynt
I got money, which gives me the power to shake up the system.
Larry Flynt
Why do I have to go to jail to protect your freedom?
Larry Flynt
I think the real obscenity comes from raisin' 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. With all the taboos attached to sex, it's no wonder we have the problems we have. It's no wonder we're angry and violent and genocidal. But ask yourself the question. What is more obscene? Sex or war?
Larry Flynt
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.
Larry Flynt
What is more obscene: Sex or war?
Larry Flynt
These are my friends - lots of money, lots of friends.
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.
Scenes with Larry Flynt
12 scenes
Althea Leasure
Larry?
Larry Flynt
Yeah?
Althea Leasure
Take off your pants.
Larry Flynt
[grins]
What?
Althea Leasure
Take off your pants.
Larry Flynt
Why?
Althea Leasure
[shows him the profit sheet]
Because I've never **** a millionaire before.
Isaacman
[on the phone]
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.
Mantke Clerk
Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help yo God?
Larry Flynt
No.
Judge 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 Mantke
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."
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.
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!
Larry Flynt
[Frustrated at the stills 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. 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.
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.
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
[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
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!
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.
