Donna Hanover credited as playing...
Ruth Carter Stapleton
- Larry Flynt: [referring to Ruth's brother, President Jimmy Carter] Do you think he ever read my publication?
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: Do you remember the interview he gave "Playboy" magazine? The one where he admitted that he had "lust in his heart"?
- Larry Flynt: You know, I was especially proud of that.
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: I'm sure you were, but Oral Roberts wasn't and Billy Graham wasn't and they took out after him in public. So, I don't think he's a big fan of adult magazines. But, you know, Larry, I'm more ambivalent about what you do. Because, I think that sexuality *is* a God given gift.
- Larry Flynt: I have to agree with you.
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: You know, when I counsel Pentecostal women in bad marriages, I don't take the Bible out. I say to them, "get some make up, get yourself some curlers, make yourself beautiful because Jesus wants you to be beautiful."
- Larry Flynt: Yeah, well, that... your somthin'. You surprise me
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: Larry, what was your childhood like? You know, sometimes things happen to us when we're very young that can hurt for many years after.
- Larry Flynt: [speaking for the first time, over the phone] This is Larry Flynt
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: Praise the lord. I've found you
- Larry Flynt: Hallelujah, what can I help you with?
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: We have a mutual friend: a television producer and he suggested we get together. He thought you and I could "hit it off."
- Larry Flynt: I don't understand you're an evangelist, I'm a smut peddler
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: I don't believe in labels. I believe you and I could teach other a lot, so are you free for dinner tomorrow night?
- Larry Flynt: I have a hectic schedule
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: You know what's nice about people like you and me? We can do anything we want.
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: [while having dinner] Do you go to church?
- Larry Flynt: Yeah particularly the big holidays Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: [confused] New Year's Eve?
- Larry Flynt: They don't have church on New Year's Eve? Ok you've proven I'm a liar, I never go
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: It's not important, that's only a ritual and I believe going straight to the teachings of Jesus
- Larry Flynt: Would you call yourself a "faith healer"?
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: Goodness no, I do spiritual healing. I don't mend bones, I mend troubled souls
- Larry Flynt: That's a relief because I though you would be one of those fakes, scare the kids "wicked this, wicked that"
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: "Hell fire", damnation", that sort of thing? That kind of talk is almost "unforgiveable"
- Larry Flynt: I'd say we have something in common
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: Actually there's something else we have in common
- Larry Flynt: What's that?
- Ruth Carter Stapleton: We're both trying to release people from sexual repression