Warm Springs Movie Quotes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
Tom Loyless
On the contrary; I envy you.
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Tom Loyless
We have seen better times. But then, I imagine, so have you.
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Jake Perini
"There but for the grace of God", they say, as if our bodies were who we are. Well it's not; our souls are who we are, only they don't know it.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[Fred Botts' mother will not led him ride a bicycle because she believes that it gave him polio]
Did she sell it?
Fred Botts
No; she took it out back and shot it.
[Roosevelt roars with laughter]
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Tom Loyless
Oh, Peabody'll sell, all right.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What makes you think he will?
Tom Loyless
Have you taken a look at this place?
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Helena Mahoney
Franklin, I can't help you out of a hole if I climb in with you.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
Eleanor Roosevelt
How am I supposed to talk to you?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Like I *was*!
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't know how to, any more.
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[last lines]
1920's Reporter
Mrs. Roosevelt, do you think that polio has affected your husband's mind?
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[at the train station, Loyless replies he's waiting for a Mr. Roosevelt]
Lionel Purdy
Teddy?
Tom Loyless
No, he's dead.
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Eloise Hutchinson
[Franklin Roosevelt must hide his disability when speaking politically]
I wish he could just wheel himself out in front of everybody.
Pat Doyle
Eloise, sweetheart, he can't - it's politics.
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Aunt Sally
Not yet, you don't.
Tom Loyless
But you will.
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Louis Howe
He's down there to be alone. Let's give him what he wants. Meantime we'll change our focus.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To what?
Louis Howe
To you.
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Al Smith
[listening to Roosevelt on the radio]
Mark my words; he'll be dead in less than a year.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
[Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor are headed toward the pool in Warm Springs]
Tell me again why we came here?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What if I fall?
Louis Howe
If you fall, you just get up again.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If I fall in front of thousands of people, I'll lose everything - except their pity. They'll never see past my legs.
Eleanor Roosevelt
My darling, they'll never see past your legs - until you do.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
[a medical convention is to be held in Atlanta]
I'm suggesting we crash the party.
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Helena Mahoney
Why should this place cater to a few able-bodied folk, when it could be open the year round for polios?
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Tom Loyless
You're gonna do great things, Franklin. This place has identity now, a purpose.
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Louis Howe
Why are you a Democrat?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
Louis Howe
You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?
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Helena Mahoney
I feel like I've been brought here under false pretenses.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Join the club.
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Sara Delano Roosevelt
He wishes to use up his entire fortune to buy up that leper colony!
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