Larry Flynt Quotes in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

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.

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

Larry Flynt: Eight million people buy it, and no one reads. Gentleman... Playboy is mocking you.

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 dryed 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: 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.

[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.

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

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 pillars 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: Why do *I* have to go to jail to protect *your* freedom?

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

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

Larry Flynt: I turned the whole world into a tabloid.

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.

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: 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 yo 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: 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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: [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

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

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: [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 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

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?

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

Isaacman: Can we discuss the fate of Cousin Bobby later? I think we should take this very seriously

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

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.

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: [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.

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"