The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Courtney Love: Althea Leasure Flynt

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• Althea Leasure : The reign of Christian terror is over. We're going back to our roots. We are porn again.

• Althea : Larry, I don't work at the magazine anymore. People there don't listen to me and they don't talk to me. They're afraid of me and they don't shake my hand... Larry, I went to Dr. Robert and... he told me that I was sick. I mean, sick, sick. I mean, I've got AIDS, Larry.

• 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 Leasure : Nobody on this planet wants their religion and their pornography together.

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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 : It was six. Tick, tick, tick.

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

  Althea : 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 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

• 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?

• Althea : [During a staff meeting for the next issue]  I got an idea, how about the Wizard of Oz? Dorothy is laying there in Kansas, there's the Tin Man, the scarecrow, and the lion and their all gang banging her? I was thinking maybe even Toto?

• Althea : [to reporters after she was asked if she surprised by the guilty verdict]  No I was not surprised by the verdict at all, we had a stupid judge, an uptight prosecutor. I'm not ashamed of Larry, I'd never be ashamed of Larry. I'd rather have a man that stands up to what he believes in, of course I'm not happy he's going to prison.

• 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 : [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.

  Larry Flynt : Bobby shot a preacher?

  Althea : Yeah. You didn't know that?

  Larry Flynt : What denomination?

  Althea : Baptist.

  Larry Flynt : I always liked that kid.

  Isaacman : Can we discuss the fate of Cousin Bobby later, Larry? I think we need to discuss this very seriously, if you want my opinion.

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

• 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 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?

• Althea : Why? Why?

  Larry Flynt : 'Cause I had an epiphany. Okay?

  Althea : A - a what?

  Larry Flynt : An epiphany.

  Althea : Where'd you learn that damn word? This woman crookin' you so hard, she's teaching you, what, English now?

• Althea : Will you get me some bananas?

  Larry Flynt : [singing]  Yes, I'll get you bananas.

  Althea : Thank you, honey.

• 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.

• Althea : Do you want some coffee or tea or sandwiches or Ho-Hos or Pringles or something?

• Althea : Nobody on this planet wants their religion and their porn mixed together.

• Althea : Why? Why?

  Larry Flynt : Because I had an epiphany, okay?

  Althea : A - a what?

  Larry Flynt : An *epiphany!*

  Althea : Where'd you learn that damn word? This woman crooking you so hard, she's teaching you English now?

  Larry Flynt : She ain't crooking me, okay?

  Althea : I think it was more an acid flashback.

• Jimmy Flynt : [sellthrough dropping]  You're just a stupid dumb briar-hopper. And what made you think you could pull this off anyway, Larry?

  Althea : 'Cause he has balls, Jimmy.

  Jimmy Flynt : Yeah, but what he needs is brains!

  Althea : Oh, God, Einstein speaking!

  [smirks loudly] 

  Althea : I'm impressed.

  Larry Flynt : So, one more issue, and we're wiped out?

  Jimmy Flynt : Yeah.

  Althea : Larry, you said yourself, it's not so bad to be poor.

  Larry Flynt : Hey, *fuck you,* Althea, you go be poor, okay?