Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)
Kenneth Branagh: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Quotes
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt : [FDR is in the swimming pool] But I don't know how to stand.
Aunt Sally : Not yet, you don't.
Tom Loyless : But you will.
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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?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : [somewhat impatiently] For the waters. Are you coming?
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Louis Howe : [FDR is supposed to make a speech] What's the matter?
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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt : [on first arriving at Warm Springs] This place should be condemned!
Tom Loyless : We have seen better times. But then, I imagine, so have you.
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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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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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt : You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
Tom Loyless : On the contrary; I envy you.
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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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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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt : [on his plans to run for office] When I can walk, I'll run.