The Expendables (2010) - Quotes

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Tool: [in a knife throwing contest with Lee Christmas; Lee throws knife near the center of the board] All right, baby, all right. Come on! Let's see what you got!

Hale Caesar: Oh! Oh!

Tool: [throws knife closer to the center] There's my boy!

Hale: Oh! Go... go... go south!

Barney Ross: [to Gunnar Jensen, who he earlier shot] So, you're back from the dead. How are you healin'?

Gunnar Jensen: [recovering from a gunshot wound three inches away from the heart] Good... considering you could have killed me.

Yin Yang: [referring to Gunnar's earlier attempt to kill him] I forgive you.

Gunnar: Okay.

Yin: [referring to their fight] I would've won.

Gunnar: [giving a thumbs and winking at Yin] Of course.

Toll Road: [who sees a therapist; Gunnar nods his head] Hey, Gunnar, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, brother: therapy.

Barney: The man's got a point.

Lee Christmas: [stops before throwing a knife and laughs; reciting a [[w:Limerick (poetry)|limerick] You know what? I'm gonna do you a favor, Tool. I once knew a man called Tool...

Barney: [Hale makes a confused face] I love poetry.

Lee: [Toll Road laughs; Yin and Toll laugh] To me, he was the epitome of cool. He was good with a knife... bad with the wife.

Barney: That hurt.

Lee: [speaking the film's final lines; the team shows a confused reaction; now standing in the street, shocks the Expendables by throwing a bull's eye] To think he could beat me, dreamin he'd defeat me, Cool Tool, you gotta be a fool! Oh yeah!

Barney Ross: [aiming at Munroe] Munroe!

James Munroe: [holding Sandra at gunpoint] Drop the weapons, or I will put a bullet through her eye! Don't test me.

Sandra Garza: [screaming] No, no!

Munroe: [to Sandra; to Barney, who is getting up, in reference to Mr. Church; [w:Central Intelligence Agency|Agency; referring to his control and drug business in Vilena; Barney is now on his feet and approaching] Shut up or I'll kill you. The ]'s parasites hired you, didn't they? I'd have paid you twice as much... to go fishing! You'd have to think I'm pretty freakin stupid to surrender to the Agency. Why would I do that? I created this. I made it all happen! And they wanted me out. Why? Because I saw the big picture! Stop walking! And what about me and you? We are both the same. We're both mercenaries. We're are both dead inside. So why the hell did you come after me?

Barney Ross: [Sandra breaks free of Munroe's hold] I didn't come after you, dipshit. I came for her!

Lee Christmas: [throws knife throws Munroe's back] Call it a tie.

Lee Christmas: [tapping his head after Barney barely misses it while shooting a soldier behind him] Are you crazy? You could've killed me!

Barney Ross: You're welcome.

Barney Ross: [after seeing Dan Paine and his men terrorize a local market] What's wrong with this picture?

Lee Christmas: Everything.

Sandra Garza: [meeting Lee Christmas and Barney Ross for the first time] What are your names?

Lee Christmas: [pointing to himself; pointing to Barney] Buda. Pest.

Sandra: [walks away] Follow me, please.

Barney Ross: [slowly turns to Lee; [w:Budapest|Buda and Pest.] ] Nice.

Barney Ross: Let's just keep it simple. If the money's right, we don't care where the job is. Got it?

Mr. Church: Let's quit jerkin off, get down to business, see who's hungry. We know your real name's probably not "Barney Ross". You don't need to know my name. The only thing you need to know is the job's real, and the money's real. But since we're in this nice place, you might as well just call me "Mr. Church".

Barney: Okay, Church, what can I do for you?

Mr. Church: In a minute. I'm still waiting for one more guy.

Barney: Who?

Church: You know him?

Barney: Yeah, we used to be on the same team together. What's my oldest, worst friend doin here?

Church: Both your names came to the top of the list. That a problem?

Barney: Yeah, should'a shot him when I had the chance.

Cigar-smoking man: [pointing his cigar toward Barney] Big Barney Ross!

Barney: [to Trent, mockingly raising his hands] Bigger Trent Mauser.

Trent Mauser: What are you doing here? Praying for work?

Barney: Could be.

Trent: Have you been sick? You've lost weight.

Barney: Really? Well, whatever weight I lost, you found, pal.

Church: [Barney looks suggestively at Trent and Church laughs sarcastically] You guys aren't gonna start sucking each other's dicks, are you? Let's get down to business, see who wants to work. You ever hear of an island called Vilena?

Barney: [to Church] No.

Trent: [to Church; [w:Gulf of Mexico|Gulf] Yeah. It's a little island in the ].

Church: [to Trent] That's right.

Trent: [to Barney] You should read more.

Barney: [sarcastically] Thanks.

Church: There are resources on that island that my people are very interested in.

Trent: But a general by the name of Garza has overthrown their half-ass government.

Church: That's right. My people have a problem with this fanatic Garza.

Barney: [to Church] So you want Garza gone?

Church: I want him dead!

Trent: [sarcastically] All it takes is a little army. Only an idiot would do this job.

Barney: [to Church] How much?

Trent: [to Church about Barney; winks at Barney; to Church; to Barney] Oh, like I said. Well, I'm busy anyway. So, give this job to my friend here. He loves playing in the jungle, right?

Barney Ross: [sarcastically] Right.

Church: [uncertain] That's right.

Trench: [to Barney] Hey, why don't we have dinner?

Barney: [to Trent] Sure, when?

Trench: In a thousand years.

Barney: Too soon.

Church: [confused about Trent] What's his fucking problem?

Barney Ross: [Trent looks back at Barney] He wants to be president. I've gotta recon this island first.

Church: I got a contact for you on the island.

Barney: [after Trent exits the church; to Church] Good riddance. I've got a feeling everyone else has passed on this job, so our fee is five-mil.

Church: [surprised; to Barney] Five mil?

Barney: I want half up front and the other half in an offshore account. You got a problem with that?

Church: [shaking his head; mockingly] No. What I have a problem with is people trying to fuck me over! So if you take this money and you don't deliver, you try to fuck me in some kind of weird, cockamamie scheme of yours, me and my people are gonna come get you and your people, and chop you up into little, fucking dog treats. You got a problem with that?

Barney: [shrugging his shoulders] Let's talk.

Gunnar Jensen: [lifting a grenade launcher] Warning shot!

Barney Ross: No!

Gunnar: [fires at the leader and rips him in half] A little low...

Tool: [Talking to Barney about how they stood for something; [w:Bosnian War|that time we was up in Bosnia; [w:Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Serb bad boys; crying; puts pipe in mouth as Barney walks away] You remember ]? We took down them ]? All our guys were gettin chopped up all around us, and there was blood everywhere. I never though I was gonna make it out of there, and I know you either. Kinda feelin like... dead too, ya know? My head's all very, very black place. Didn't believe in shit. Just goddamn Dracula black. I remember I got this bottle of this local shit they have over there. That Silvits... I think that's what it was called. And I ain't feelin no pain now... and I come up on this, uh... I come up on this overland bridge, and I see this... I see this... I see this woman standing there, ya know? And she's, uh... I stepped out and she saw me, and she's just lookin right... right in my eyes. And I was lookin right in her eyes, and I knew what she was gonna do. She looked at me, and I knew she was gonna jump. You know what I did, man? I just turned around, I kept walkin', until I heard that splash, and she was gone. After... after taking all them lives, she was one that I could have saved, but I didn't, and uh... what I realized later on was, uh, if I'd have saved that woman, I might have... I might have saved what was left of my soul, ya know.

Barney Ross: [After Hale Caesar fired a full [[w:drum magazine|drum magazine] ] of his AA-12 shotgun] Damn, that thing's loud!