Tom Loyless quotes from Warm Springs (2005)

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] I can't stay here. This place is a wreck.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin.
Tom Loyless: Look on the bright side, most of your time will be spent in the water. Look, we've fallen on some hard times...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hard times?! This place should be condemned!
Tom Loyless: [short pause] Yes, it's true, we've seen better days. But then, I imagine, so have you. [short pause] I'd be happy to drive you back to the train station right now if that's what you'd like?
Eleanor Roosevelt: My husband is concerned.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fire. [short pause] I'm very frightened of fire. I can't get out if I'm upstairs I...
Tom Loyless: Oh, of course. We have other options.

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I want no part of this. I come here for privacy.
Tom Loyless: This isn't your personal spa! I have a business to run!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Exactly! You have a business to run not I!
Tom Loyless: No one's asking anything of you!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Course they are!
Tom Loyless: Do you know what it took for most of them to get here?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: It's not my concern! I want to be left alone!
Tom Loyless: My God... You're afraid of these people.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Afraid? What are you talking about?
Tom Loyless: You look at them with the same repulsion and pity as everyone else.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't be ridiculous! And I resent--
Tom Loyless: You don't want to be around them because then that would make you one of them. Wouldn't it?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: God dammit! Get outta my way! Get out of my goddamn way!

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
Tom Loyless: On the contrary; I envy you.