Hume Cronyn
(as Louis Howe)
Louis Howe:
You don't have to remember a thing. You just read it!
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like *reading* a speech.
Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like *reading* a speech.
Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?
Hume Cronyn
(as Louis Howe)
Eleanor Roosevelt:
I have this naive view that you should pursue principles without calculating the consequences.
Louis Howe: You're no politician.
Louis Howe: You're no politician.
Ralph Bellamy
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
[putting on his hat to wave at the photographers that he has eluded by boarding the train secretly] Do I look snappy?
Ralph Bellamy
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I feel I've had to go through the fire for some reason. Eleanor, it's a hard way to learn humility, but I've had to learn it by crawling. I know what is meant "You must learn to crawl, before you can walk."
Ralph Bellamy
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Hume Cronyn
(as Louis Howe)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Louis, why in hell must you keep pacing up and down?
Louis Howe: I'm nervous!
Louis Howe: I'm nervous!
Ralph Bellamy
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
When you're forced to sit a lot, and watch others move about, you feel apart, lonely - because you can't get up and pace around.