The Public (2018)

Emilio Estevez: Stuart Goodson

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• Angela : So you're just really into books, huh?

  Stuart Goodson : Books saved my life.

  Angela : Saved your life?

  Stuart Goodson : Books helped me get sober, and helped me turn my life around. They're tangible, they're real. Something I can get my hands and my head around, so yeah. They saved my life.

• Jackson : It's cold enough for you, Mr. Goodson?

  Stuart Goodson : It's gonna be brutal, the next couple of nights, for sure.

  Jackson : We could all come stay at your place!

  Stuart Goodson : ...I would if I could...

  Jackson : You could but you won't. No judgement here, though.

• Jackson : Reckon there's gonna be a hundred angry cops at the door soon, huh? You know there's a lot of vets in here. Can't imagine they'd care either way...

  Stuart Goodson : We're all a bunch of bums, Jackson. Don't you know that?

  Jackson : They gonna get in, they always do. This time, I'm a fight back.

  Stuart Goodson : It's a fight you'll lose.

• Anderson : [Stuart has just quoted John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" to explain himself to the media]  Good words.

  Stuart Goodson : I wish they'd been mine...

  Anderson : They *are* yours, Stuart. And mine. Theirs. They belong to all of us.

• Stuart Goodson : Sorry about tonight, Mr. Anderson.

  Anderson : I'm not.

• Jackson : Mr. Goodson, I gotta talk to you. Look, uh, all the shelters downtown are full up again!

  Stuart Goodson : Uh-huh, what about the emergency overflow at Shelter House?

  Jackson : That's a forty minute walk away. In this weather? In these shoes? Look, Mr. Goodson, you know I'm a veteran, right? I served my country. This all I get?

• Anderson : I'm not in a position to declare our library an emergency shelter.

  Stuart Goodson : People are freezing to death in our own city! How can you be okay with that?

  Anderson : Woah, hey! I'm not! I'm not okay with it.

  Stuart Goodson : Okay, you could call the mayor's office, call the mayor's office right now!

  Anderson : Mr. Goodson... Stuart. Listen. The board trustees want you gone. That's what's going on. I'm trying, but I'm having a difficult time making a case for you to stay here. So no, the library will not be an emergency shelter tonight, tomorrow, not ever.

  Stuart Goodson : ...They wanna fire me?

  Anderson : They'd prefer if you tendered your resignation.

  Stuart Goodson : I was following library protocol... they wanna fire me for doing my job?

  Anderson : I'm sorry. It's out of my control.

  [Walks away from Stuart] 

  Stuart Goodson : Out of your control? You have no idea how much shit is about to get out of your control, sir!

• Stuart Goodson : Cold enough for you, Ernesto?

  Ernesto : I'm taking my ass back to Mexico if this cold keeps up!

• Stuart Goodson : Have you ever been arrested?

  Myra : No, have you?

  Stuart Goodson : Unfortunately. Pepper sprayed?

  Myra : No! You have?

  Stuart Goodson : ...Are we staying or we going?

• Detective Bill Ramstead : Goodson, you've got the doors open now, this is an opportunity for you to stand down, end this right now.

  Stuart Goodson : You want us out? Give us somewhere to go. How about we all go to your place?

  Detective Bill Ramstead : Well, my ex-wife got the house in Mt. Adams, so I'd love to see everybody go over there!

• Stuart Goodson : The patrons are staging an action!