Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)
Cynthia Nixon: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Quotes
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Eleanor Roosevelt : [beginning to cry] I think we've lost him, Louis!
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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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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Eleanor Roosevelt : [a medical convention is to be held in Atlanta] I'm suggesting we crash the party.
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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?
Eleanor Roosevelt : [with a huge smile on her face] Yes, I do! I certainly do!