Top 30 Quotes From Barney Ross

[last lines]
Lee: From one friend to another...
Barney: What?
Lee: You really need to learn how to fight.

Barney: What are you doing here?
Booker: Moving on. You killed all my business.

Church: Did you win?
Barney: I think so.
Trench: Well, where's the proof?
Barney: [Pulls out Vilain's head in a bag] Heads up.
[Chucks head onto the ground]
Trench: Nice touch.

Barney: [to Maggie after killing Vilain] You know how to carve a turkey?

Gunner: [the bomb's fuse goes out] Well, the phosphorus must have been damp.
Lee: Yeah, right.
Toll: Or you suck.
Hale: There's that.
Maggie: Don't cry, Gunner.
Barney: You almost had an idea.

Trench: I need a weapon. Something big.
[looks at Caesar's gun]
Trench: Yours.
Hale: Whoa, whoa, whoa. My big weapon's hangin' right where it is.
Barney: Come on, Caesar. You got a backup.
[Caesar reluctantly hands over his gun]
Hale: If I don't get this back, your ass is terminated.
Trench: In your dreams.

Barney: [seeing their new plane] That thing belongs in a museum.
Trench: We all do.

Barney: I got an idea. And your ego, I think you're gonna love it.
Lee: My ego?
Barney: Your ego.
Lee: What do you mean, my ego?
Barney: You've got a big ego.
Lee: Well, check your ego out.
Barney: Oh, please. Your ego is like the size of a dinosaur. Huge.

Maggie: Can I ask you something?
Barney: Sure, go ahead.
Maggie: Why are you so nervous around me?
Barney: I don't get nervous, Maggie.
Maggie: Then what is it?
Barney: I just like keeping a distance.
Maggie: Is it because you don't want to know anymore people?
Barney: Let's just say bad things have happened to people I've gotten close to.
Maggie: Not a good way to live.
Barney: [nods] I know.

Barney: Why is it that one of us who wants to live the most, who deserves to live the most dies, and the ones that deserve to die keep on living? What's the message in that?

Church: What's taking so long, Barney Ross? This should have been a walk in the park for you guys. Where's the case?
Barney: Don't have it.
Church: I warned you what would happen to you mutts if you pulled this shit again.
Barney: A good man died trying to get that case.
Church: I'm sorry about that.
Barney: Are you?
Church: Yes, as a matter of fact, I am. But this sort of situation comes with the territory, wouldn't you say?
Barney: And so does payback. You know, Church, you're the kind of guy that pulls the strings, and everyone else does your dirty work 'cause you never had the guts to do it yourself. We're done.

Lee: Beware, beware, walk with care / Care for what you do / Or mumbo jumbo's gonna hoo-doo you / Mumbo jumbo's gonna hoo-doo you / Boom-lay, boom-lay, boom-lay boom!

Barney: [to Maggie's first show of skills] You got guts... No common sense...

Toll: [eating some bad food] Oh. This tastes like shit.
[to Caesar]
Toll: How's yours?
Hale: Can't complain about rigatoni. Plan ahead, fellas. That's all I have to say. Y'all, what if you knew you were going to die tomorrow? What would your last meal be? One choice.
Toll: One choice?
Hale: It'd probably be cereal for you, huh?
Toll: What the hell's wrong with cereal?
Gunner: It's cliché.
Hale: You gotta be original. You know, if you were an original, broad-thinking man, you'd probably come up with some special cereal, like Earios. You know, just like your ear. You know, pour milk on them suckers, they just lay there and you don't hear shit.
Toll: For the record, my hearing is 20/20.
Hale: Barney?
Barney: Donuts and most food that kills ya.
Hale: That's deep, man.
Barney: [chuckles] You think so?
Hale: Maggie?
Maggie: Crispy aromatic duck with plum sauce. Very sexy.
[short pause]
Maggie: But I like Italian, too.
Hale: I'm starting to think Italian's overrated.
[everyone laughs]
Gunner: Hey. What about me? My favorite Swedish dinner would be, baby seal, and whale ass, in the summer.
[to Maggie]
Gunner: But I'd really die for some Chinese.
Barney: Then you're gonna starve to death.
[everyone laughs]

Lee: [Billy is running up the hill] Remember when you could do that?
Barney: No, do you?

[Lee's cell phone rings]
Barney: [mockingly] "Hello, darlin'."
Lee: Hello, darlin'.

Barney: Trench?
Trench: Oh, this is embarrassing.
Barney: Yeah, it sure is.
Lee: What's he doing here?
Trench: Saving this Chinese billionaire.
Barney: Oh, yeah? That's funny. So are we.
Trench: Well, then we have a scheduling problem, don't we?
[to Gunner]
Trench: Cut me loose, Frankenstein.
Barney: Don't get nuts, Gunner. Do it.

Barney: Rest in pieces.

Barney: Christmas, my friend. Please tell me you ain't going through this.
Lee: Of course I am. Look at that girl. Who wouldn't marry her?
Barney: She cheated on you.
Lee: It was a half-cheat.
Barney: Which is?
Lee: The other side of a half-truth. The facts are murky.
Barney: Murky. I hate to break this to you, pal, but your girlfriend over there has a world-class cheating gene.
Lee: I should stab you in the heart.
Barney: Too late.

Lee: [while the Sangs are attacking the Expendables] Can you hold them off?
Barney: Yeah, maybe with a tank.
[the Sangs appear with a tank]
Barney: Oh, shit.
Lee: What?
Barney: They've got a tank.

Vilain: You wanna kill me like a man? Or you wanna kill me like a sheep? So. What's it going to be? Man or sheep?
Barney: You wanna man up? I'll man you up.

Lee: You're not doing what I think you're doing.
Barney: Yeah, I am.
Lee: Let's do it!
[Barney intentionally rams and crash lands his plane into the plutonium mine, Maggie nearly falls out and Gunnar saves her]
Lee: You're gonna need a new plane.

Gunner: I got a plan. Everybody calm down. Phosphate rock.
Lee: What's he doing?
Barney: Probably making a bomb.
Lee: You serious?
Barney: Ask him.
Lee: What you doing, Gunner?
Gunner: I'm making a bomb. You mind?
Barney: A maniac with brains.
Lee: Scary.

Barney: That's how we deal with death. We can't change what it is, so we keep it light until it's time to get dark. And then we get pitch black.

Barney: I've heard another rumor, that you were bitten by a king cobra?
Booker: Yeah, I was. But after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.

Lee: What's the plan?
Barney: Track him, find him, kill him.

Pilar: Who you are?
Barney: We're Americans.
Lee: Since when?
Gunner: Swedish.
Hale: Blackfoot.
Maggie: Chinese.
Toll: Retards.
Barney: [to Toll Road] You done?

Barney: I thought you were the Lone Wolf.
Booker: Sometimes, it's fun to run with the pack.

Vilain: Respect is everything. Without respect, we are just people. Common, shitty people.
Bill: [to Ross] I'm sorry, sir.
Barney: It's not your fault... Now what?
Vilain: We are both fighting men. And I respect that. But fighting men, they don't deserve to be killed like sheep. But, respect... must be taught.

Vilain: You must want to hurt me bad.
Barney: I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm gonna take your life.