Stonebanks quotes from The Expendables 3 (2014)

Stonebanks

Useless bunch... You want something done right...

Stonebanks

Oh, we don't need this, do we? [Throws away gun]

Stonebanks

Come on, stand up. You'll feel better.

Stonebanks

Hey Barney! You should have killed me when you had the chance. If you want the kids, come get 'em! [Features a video showing the younger Expendables captured]

Stonebanks

You mother****er... What about the Hague?

Barney Ross

I am the Hague.

Why don't you just put a bullet in his head and be done with it. [Reaches over and takes off Stonebank's mouth tape then Barney punches him awake]

Thorn

Hey, you said you were taking him in!

Stonebanks

Woah, ha ha! Good morning! Are these your students? Hey, what happened to the old crew? Oh, that's right. They stuck their noses into other people's worlds and got fatally injured. Now they're The Deleteables. Hey, you hear that kids? Take note - that's what you are right now.

You want me to shut his mouth?

Stonebanks

You're talking pretty tough for a guy that incapacitated, which is good for you.

Is it?

Stonebanks

Why don't you cut me loose, I'll open your meat shirt and show you your own heart. Hey Barn, why don't the two of us just end this. What do you say? Mix it up, you snapping my spine or me snapping yours. You know, make it snappy. [Barney keeps staring] He thinks I'm joking. I'm not joking. You should see me when I'm angry. You'd be very impressed. And very dead. So come on pal. Anything you want to get off your chest? Come on, lay it out. I'm a good listener. You're going to take me back to the Has-been-crew, carve me up around a fire. Very tribal.

Barney Ross

When we stop, I'm gonna break every bone in your body and drop what's left at The Hague.

Stonebanks

The Hague! Well, I **** made the big time! I'm a war criminal!

Barney Ross

Keep laughing.

Stonebanks

Do you think that you can just deliver me, like a package? We were close once. See, we started this whole Expendables thing together. See, I got the markers. [Shows his 'Expendable' tattoos] A bit faded but, we had a falling out.

Barney Ross

You went dark.

Stonebanks

It's a dark business, Barney, don't pretend you're not in it! The baddest survive, those are the rules. I didn't make them up! You see, Barney here was content to work for the small-end money, as an employee. But being a boss is more lucrative, but that is a concept that somehow eluded you. Plus, you had that pesky moral conscience. God, that stuff gets in the way! He thinks he's the good guy!

Barney Ross

Keep talking while you can.

Stonebanks

Sure, you got a conscience that makes you weak. Success, real success, is being willing to do the things that other people are not.

Barney Ross

Not everyone is as sick as you.

Stonebanks

Oh, but you are! You kill anyone today, Barn? Blow any shit up? How about you kids, kill anyone? Before you all start grabbing bricks and stoning me at The Hague. You might want to check your own hands for blood. Ah, but I digress, where was I? Yes, business is booming right? A chopper here, a missile there, guns, whatever. When suddenly a competitor - if you can call Uncle Sam a competitor - hires my own team, Barney and the whole gang to whack me. Things got ugly real fast, and a lot of people got real dead. Three former brothers in arms.

Barney Ross

You shut your mouth!

Stonebanks

[Furiously rants Three expendables, our brothers, men we ate with, fought with, bled with, DEAD! He puts three slugs into my chest. Thank God for body armor, even I thought I was dead. Then he boogies out with the casualties, all dead because you couldn't stay out of my business!

Barney Ross

Shut your mouth!

Stonebanks

Go on, do it! Go on!

That's what he wants.

Stonebanks

It's hard to fathom, I can't believe you forgot.

Barney Ross

What?

Stonebanks

That it's hard to be an enemy when you're living inside your own head. So you tie me up like an animal, leave me to the slaughter, you humiliate me, disgrace me. Now, when the time comes to kill you - and it will - I will not use a weapon, I will use my hands, because I want you to feel the way I feel right now. Since we were brothers.

Stonebanks

Well, lookin' a little strung out there, kids! This is what you get for being pawns in Barney's moral chess game. [Looks at Thorn] That one looks a little slack. [Soldiers straighten Thorn out while Stonebanks turns to Luna] You know, I feel most bad for you.

Luna

I don't give a shit how you feel.

Stonebanks

I do, I have a daughter. I have feelings. Anyway, when the CIA, I presume that is who you're working for. The CIA, am I right? I bet you don't know who you're working for. What, for Barney? Do you know who he's working for? Does HE know who he's working...? It gets very confusing. Anyway when the CIA wanted guys doing the dangerous work in the dangerous places, they called us, they didn't want to get their hands dirty. They called us. Yep, we cleared every hotspot they had, we bumped the bad guys so the good guys could roll in looking like heroes. We killed a lot. But we saved more lives than you could possibly imagine. Then, the boys on the Hill wanting no loose ends tried to bury me. I was an American! Working for America! Was. They'd eat their own children. The lesson here is... Never do business with the government. I'm going to save you that heartache. He never will.

Can you access [Making a mushroom motion] nuclear weapons?

Stonebanks

I might. [Getting in close] But generally I find that people are little too emotional of ownership. And I'd hate you killing all my other customers by accident. Or on purpose.