Ray (film) Quotes

Ray (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Ray ended its run in 1970.

It features Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin, and Karen Baldwin as producer, Craig Armstrong (composer) in charge of musical score, and Paweł Edelman as head of cinematography.

Ray (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Ray (film) is 152 minutes long. Ray (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Kerry Washington as Della Bea Robinson, Bokeem Woodbine as Fathead Newman, Denise Dowse as Marlene, Warwick Davis as Oberon, Kerry Washington as Aretha Robinson, David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw, Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun, Chris Thomas King as Lowell Fulson, Harry Lennix as Joe Adams, Larenz Tate as Quincy Jones, Terrence Howard as Gossie McKee, C. J. Sanders as Young Ray Robinson, Clifton Powell as Jeff Brown, Kerry Washington as Eula, Aunjanue Ellis as Mary Ann Fisher, and Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler.

Ray (film) Quotes

Bokeem Woodbine as Fathead Newman

• (Bokeem Woodbine) "Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine me for being late."
• (Jamie Foxx) "What time did you get here?"
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "What? Just now. The band's still setting up. Jeff never --"
• (Harry Lennix) "I'm not Jeff."
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "That's a fact, Jack."
• (Clifton Powell) "Ray, you said the band was my thing."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's right, I did."
• (Clifton Powell) "Fathead, you go on back to rehearsal."
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "Ray. You know how it is, you've been there."
• (Clifton Powell) "Fathead, go on now. I'll take care of this. Ray you want to tell me what's going on man?"
• (Harry Lennix) "I'm not doing anything I haven't been asked to do. Ray's running a business. He shouldn't have to waste time hearing why people were late."
• (Clifton Powell) "I'm not talking to you, Joe. I'm talking to Ray."

• (Bokeem Woodbine) "Look at Ray over there. You see that? He feels her wrist because he figures that's the way to tell if she's good looking or not."

• (Bokeem Woodbine) "This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy. Boy'll make your ass null and void."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Null and void, just like my life."

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

• (Jamie Foxx) "Ah, c'mon, Q it's not that complicated. Now let's just play it again. That's a b-flat, c-7th, scale it up and triple off the back end."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yah-da-da-da-da, yeah. That's it."
• (Denise Dowse) "Ray, what did I tell you about cooking in the dark? Are you trying to burn the house down?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Think about it, Marlene, what do I need the light for?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Well, you don't need to be cooking anyway. We brought you take out from Oscar's."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, get your money back. I got fried chicken right here. Come on, 7-0, try this."
• (Larenz Tate) "Yeah, it's about time."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, that's home cooked right there."
• (Denise Dowse) "No, thank you."
• (Larenz Tate) "Mmm, this is the most 6-9. Just needs a little hot sauce, be perfect."
• (Jamie Foxx) "So, what'd Jack Lauderdale have to say?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Oh, I clocked him comin' out the gate. The man was a two-bit hustler."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh, I see."
• (Terrence Howard) "Yeah, it turns out the only hit Swingtime ever had was Open the Door, Richard which was a joke record."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, what about him recording me?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Oh, he'll record you, if we pay the freight."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Scratch a lie. Find a thief."
• (Denise Dowse) "What's that supposed to mean?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "This."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You see I saw Jack Lauderdale tonight and he gave me a $500.00 advance on my record. He also said he'd put me on the road with Lowell Folsum and pay me three times as much as you been paying me."
• (Denise Dowse) "Now, that's a lie."
• (Terrence Howard) "Ain't no way he's gonna put some blind man on the road. Think about it. I mean, you need watchin' out for and he ain't got to time to look after you the way I been lookin' after you."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Is that what you been doing, Gossie, watchin' out for me? Is that why you get paid double what I do?"
• (Terrence Howard) "Who told you that?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, it's true, ain't it. You and Marlene been gamin' me since I got here."
• (Denise Dowse) "Ray, baby, listen."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ain't got to listen to you."

• (Jamie Foxx) "From now on we're gonna sing a four part harmony. Ethel, I want you to sing alto. Margie, I want you to sing tenor. Pat, soprano, and Mary Ann, bass."
• (Aunjanue Ellis) "I ain't no bass. I'm a soprano."
• (Margie Hendricks) "I'll sing bass. Where we come from we can sing anything."
• (Aunjanue Ellis) "We talking about singing, sugar, not hog calling."
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "Oh that's cold."
• (Margie Hendricks) "Who you calling a hog?"
• (Aunjanue Ellis) "Well, if the corn cob fits."

• (Jamie Foxx) "I want you to promise me something. Promise you won't feel sorry for me just because I'm blind."
• (Kerry Washington) "How can I pity someone I admire?"

• (Jack Lauderdale) "Hey, Baby. You sound more like Nat than the King himself. What's your name?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ray Robinson."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Ray Robinson. I'm Jack Lauderdale, Swingtime records."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Hey, Jack. How you doin'."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "How 'bout us making a record together?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh, hell yes. Let's do that."
• (Denise Dowse) "Can I help you?"
• (Jack Lauderdale) "I don't think so. Me and Cool Breeze here just talkin' a little business."
• (Denise Dowse) "Then you need to talk to me because I'm his manager."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Whichever way the wind blows."
• (Denise Dowse) "It's blowing."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Jack Lauderdale. Swingtime records."
• (Denise Dowse) "Marlene Andre."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Marlene."
• (Terrence Howard) "Gossie McKee."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Gossie McKee."
• (Denise Dowse) "Great set, baby. We're going to talk with Mr. Lauderdale here."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I'm gonna come down there and talk to him."
• (Terrence Howard) "You are doin' a fabulous job, Ray."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Hey, Goss. Yes, man. Hey look, let's talk to him about this record, man."
• (Terrence Howard) "No, no, we're gonna let Marlene handle that. You get Oberon to call you a cab, alright."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Guys. Guys."
• (Warwick Davis) "Hey Daddy-O, want to smoke? I've got some gage fresh off the boat. It's clean and seedless."
• (Jamie Foxx) "So that's how it is, huh? You keep me high while they talk the business?"
• (Warwick Davis) "I ain't the one playin' you, man."

• (Jamie Foxx) "From now on you guys are gonna be called the Raylettes."
• (Margie Hendricks) "Does that mean we have to "let Ray"?"

• (Jamie Foxx) "Whoa Nelly."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Don't worry about it, man. If this monkey gets too heavy on my back, I will get an organ grinder and put him to work."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Who is it?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Mr. Charles, my name is Ahmet Ertegun. May I have a moment of your time?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "What do you want, man? I'm at church."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "I'm sorry. I'll come back later."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You're here now, what do you want?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Mr. Charles, my company, Atlantic Records, has just acquired your contract from Swingtime. I'd like to talk about your future."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Hold on, man. Don't jive me now. I ain't for sale."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "May I sit down?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "You see it seems that Jack Lauderdale has found himself, shall we say, a little over extended and has had to unload some of his talent. When your name came up I jumped at the chance to work with you. I'm a big fan."
• (Jamie Foxx) "What if I want to go to another company? There's a guy out there right now that's willing to pay me seven cents a record. Can you do that?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Man, I could promise you fifteen cents a record but you won't get it. Anymore than he'll pay you seven. What I will do is promise you five cents a record and pay you five cents a record. You think pennies, Mr. Charles, you get pennies. You think dollars, you get dollars."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I like the way you put things together. Omlet, you're alright with me."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Ahmet."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ahmet. What kind of a name is that anyway."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "I'm Turkish."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, it looks like Jack Lauderdale's bad luck is my good fortune. I always knew Atlantic was bigger than Swingtime. You do great music there. I dig Atlantic."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "You could have fooled me."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, I gotta keep my eye on you city boys. Back home they call it country dumb."
• (Jamie Foxx) "It ain't Turkish."

• (Jamie Foxx) "If I feel the music, that means it's real."
• (Larenz Tate) "No, it ain't. Ray Charles is a sell-out. The blind Liberace, leaving those Rocking Chair roots behind."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Ms. Antoine, it's been two weeks."
• (Kerry Washington) "It's been three."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, where's the preacher at and the wife?"
• (Kerry Washington) "They're in Dallas till Monday."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, hallelujah."

• (Jamie Foxx) "That's Diz. Emanon."
• (Larenz Tate) "Yeah, but what's it spell backwards?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Come on man, why don't you give me something difficult? "No name.""
• (Larenz Tate) "Say, daddy-o, what axe you play?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Uh, piano. Just blew in from Tampa, Florida. Me and my partner, Gossie McGee, came here, you know, want to fatten up our style. Cop some licks from some more experienced cats, you dig?"
• (Larenz Tate) "You know what? Why don't you let me take you inside? You know, show you around."
• (Jamie Foxx) "All right. Perfect gentleman."
• (Larenz Tate) "Yeah, this is just like my place. So, what's your name?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ray Robinson."
• (Larenz Tate) "I'm Quincy Jones."

• (Jamie Foxx) "I have a question for all of you. How would you like to go on the road with me?"
• (Margie Hendricks) "Um, how much you gonna pay us?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Ahmet takes care of all of that."
• (Margie Hendricks) "You mean he don't listen to you?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "You better know he does. Don't worry about it. Brother Ray will take care of all of you, honey."
• (Margie Hendricks) "Well my mama taught me to take care of myself, honey."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well is your mother here?"
• (Margie Hendricks) "No she's not, but I speak for us."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Okay Speak For Us, how about $20 a week."
• (Margie Hendricks) "We'll take $40. Each."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Forty each?"
• (Margie Hendricks) "You heard me."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Naw. How about $25."
• (Margie Hendricks) "We'll take $30."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I better say yes before you talk me out of my drawers."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Is it a deal?"
• (Margie Hendricks) "Oh. Yeah."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You'll be called the Raelettes."
• (Margie Hendricks) "Does that mean we have to let Ray?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh, what am I gonna do with you?"
• (Margie Hendricks) "I'm sure you'll think of something."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Art Tatum is the most."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Man, you told me if I think pennies, I get pennies. I'm thinking dollars, man."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Don't jive me, man."

• (Jamie Foxx) "I hear like you see. Like that hummingbird outside the window, for instance."
• (Kerry Washington) "I can't hear her."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You have to listen."
• (Kerry Washington) "Yes."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah. Yes, you can -- Uh-oh. Did you hear that?"
• (Kerry Washington) "What?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Her heart just skipped a beat."

• (Jamie Foxx) "You know what they're saying about me? Said I lost something. Said I've gone middle-of-the-road. They might as well say the same thing about you. You were the soul of this band, now every time you're around you're just drunk. The drunk soul of a blind junkie. What a lovely couple."

• (Jamie Foxx) "You told me to find my own voice."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Marge is drunk, Jeff. Go home and sleep it off."
• (Clifton Powell) "Let me take you home."
• (Margie Hendricks) "No. I'll leave when I'm good and god**** ready to."
• (Jamie Foxx) "She's good and god**** ready right now."

• (Jamie Foxx) "Could you do me a favor and close that bag?"
• (Larenz Tate) "What's wrong with you? You got two hands. You can close it yourself."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I got two feet too. Could you close the bag?"

• (Jack Lauderdale) "Smell that, Ray? It's the smell of success. We're in LA now. A place where the negro can really spread his wings and fly."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I know my ears ain't deceivin' me. Is that Art Tatum I hear?"
• (Jack Lauderdale) "The one and only. You wanna meet him?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I, I really couldn't, man, Art Tatum's the most."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "So, listen, Ray, we gotta talk about your name, man. Robinson. I mean, Sugar Ray got the Robinson frachinse sowed up. So I'm thinkin' we go with your middle name, Charles. As in Ray Charles."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I don't care what you call me man as long as my name's the one on the record."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Yeah, well, we gonna toast to that."
• (Chris Thomas King) "Hey. What's the haps, Jack."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "My man. Lowell Folson, meet your new piano player, Ray Charles."
• (Chris Thomas King) "Ray Charles. The Blind Sensation."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Oooo, damn. We gonna use that on the album cover."
• (Jamie Foxx) "He's the real sensation. Mr. Fulson, I been listenin' to your music for year."
• (Chris Thomas King) "Hey, the man's got taste."
• (Jack Lauderdale) "Yeah, and the man ain't never been on the road with a band before so you gonna look after him while you're out there, right?"
• (Chris Thomas King) "Hey, like he was my own brother."

• (Jamie Foxx) "How could you do that? We've been through so much. We were like brothers."
• (Clifton Powell) "Ray -- if we were like brothers, why are you paying Joe more than you're paying me?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Damn all that. You broke my heart."
• (Clifton Powell) "Well you know what, Ray? You broke mine a long god**** time ago."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, there it is."
• (Clifton Powell) "You know something, Ray? You're gonna get yours one day. And I pray to God he has mercy on your soul, you son of a bitch."

• (Jack Lauderdale) "So Ray, we got to talk about your name, man. Robinson. I mean, Sugar Ray got to Robinson franchise all sewed up. So I'm thinking we go with your middle name: Charles. As in "Ray Charles.""
• (Jamie Foxx) "I don't care what you call me, man, just as long as my name is on the record."

Terrence Howard as Gossie McKee

• (Terrence Howard) "What the hell's Ray doin' up there?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Auditionin' for you Gossie."
• (Terrence Howard) "He ain't no good without me."
• (Denise Dowse) "How'd you and the 'Bama like to do a week here at the Chair. I know a good bass player. Nice jazz trio can score big. With the right manager."
• (Terrence Howard) "Manager?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Come on now, Gossie, don't be so small minded. You know you have to give to get."
• (Terrence Howard) "What exactly do I have to give?"
• (Denise Dowse) "Twenty-five percent. But I'll be gettin' you other gigs."
• (Terrence Howard) "Alright. Next question. What do I get?"
• (Denise Dowse) "What do you need?"
• (Terrence Howard) "Double scale as leader. Plus ten percent."
• (Denise Dowse) "What about the 'Bama?"
• (Terrence Howard) "He's about as green as a blade of grass. I can handle him."
• (Denise Dowse) "Yeah, he's green alright. So, Gossie, you don't have to worry about finding a hotel room for the 'Bama. He can flop at my place."
• (Terrence Howard) "You don't never change."

• (Terrence Howard) "You need watching out for and he ain't got time to look after you the way I been looking after you."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Is that what you been doing, Gossie, watching out for me? Is that why you get paid double what I do?"
• (Terrence Howard) "Who told you that?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well it's true, ain't it? You and Marlene been gaming me ever since I got here."
• (Denise Dowse) "Ray, baby, listen --"
• (Jamie Foxx) "I ain't got to listen to you."
• (Terrence Howard) "Listen Ray, I been meaning to talk to you about that."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Then why aren't you talking?"
• (Terrence Howard) "Look Ray, let's not do nothing stupid."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I might be blind, but I ain't stupid."

• (Terrence Howard) "Man, we're gonna be late."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I gotta get my own place, Gossie."
• (Terrence Howard) "Why? I mean you got free rent right now."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Like hell it's free rent --"

Kerry Washington as Della Bea Robinson

• (Kerry Washington) "If you want to do something to make your mama proud, promise me. Promise me you won't let nobody turn you into no cripple, you won't become no charity case, and you'll stand on your own two feet."
• (C. J. Sanders) "I promise."
• (Kerry Washington) "I love you, baby. I'm so proud of you."

• (Kerry Washington) "That stuff kills people, Ray. Now you've gotta stop it."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I don't have to do a god**** thing."

• (Kerry Washington) "The only thing that can help you is God, Ray."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Don't you talk about God. You have any idea how it feels to go blind and still be afraid of the dark? And every day, you stand and pray just for a little light, and you don't get nothing. Cause God don't listen to people like me."
• (Kerry Washington) "Stop talking like that."
• (Jamie Foxx) "As far as I'm concerned, me and God is even, and I do what I damn well please."

• (Kerry Washington) "You have got to stop this now because there is something you love more then me --"
• (Jamie Foxx) "No, don't say that, Bea --"
• (Kerry Washington) "-- there is something you love more then me, the children, and every woman you ever slept with."
• (Jamie Foxx) "No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love you more then anythin'"
• (Kerry Washington) "It's your music."
• (Kerry Washington) "And if you keep usin' that needle they'll take away your music and put you in jail. Is that what you want?"

• (Kerry Washington) "Somebody'll fetch you when the bus gets to St. Augustine. When your there, show'em this."
• (Kerry Washington) "Tell them your name is Ray Charles Robinson."
• (Kerry Washington) "An' the sandwiches I made, don't eat them all at once -- ya hear me?"
• (C. J. Sanders) "Mama -- please don't make me go away. I'll keep up with the normal kids. I'll be good, just like George."
• (Kerry Washington) "This got nothin' to do with George -- I've taken you as far as I can, baby. The teachers at St. Augustine know things I can't teach you. An' you need an education in this world."
• (C. J. Sanders) "I don't want no education."
• (Kerry Washington) "Shh. don't say that."
• (C. J. Sanders) "I don't. I wanna stay here with you."
• (Kerry Washington) "Stop it, Ray. I won't have you livin' hand to mouth like me, you hear?"
• (Kerry Washington) "Now -- If you wanna do something to make Mama proud, promise me you'll never let nobody turn you into no cripple -- You won't become no charity case. An? you will always stand on your own two feet."
• (C. J. Sanders) "I promise."
• (Kerry Washington) "I love you baby -- I'm so proud of you."

• (Kerry Washington) "He isn't my gift to you, he's your son."

• (Kerry Washington) "Aretha. Aretha Robinson, what do you think you're doing?"
• (Kerry Washington) "Eula Bench, you promised me to split these washbaskets fair and square."
• (Kerry Washington) "And I did."
• (Kerry Washington) "Hell, you did. You charged them white folks one thing and paid me another."
• (Kerry Washington) "Well, now, who's gonna wash all these?"
• (Kerry Washington) "You can. Now pay me my money."
• (Kerry Washington) "Alright, I'm gonna pay you your two little dollars, but don't you be expecting no more work from me."
• (Kerry Washington) "I got all the work I need from you. Ray, George, come on."
• (Kerry Washington) "That's right. And don't y'all ever come back."
• (Kerry Washington) "Y'all got to learn to read and write real good, so you don't have to work for folks like them. Scratch a liar, find a thief. Understand?"
• (Young George Robinson) "Yes, ma'am."

• (Kerry Washington) "If only your mama was here."
• (Jamie Foxx) "She's here. She ain't never left."

• (Kerry Washington) "Let me call you a cab."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I got it. Three blocks up, left for two, right for one, fifteen giant steps and I'm at the Crystal White Hotel. Hello."

• (Kerry Washington) "I'm having second thoughts about this. I don't know nobody in L.A."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Look, Bea, I don't want my kids growing up in the South. Now L.A. is where, you know, a Negro can spread his wings and fly."
• (Kerry Washington) "Ray, my whole family is in Texas."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's why we're moving to L.A."

• (Kerry Washington) "I'll show you how to do something once, I'll help you if you mess up twice, but the third time you're on your own. 'Cause that's how it is in the world."

Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun

• (Curtis Armstrong) "Ray, I'm gonna tell you something and I don't want you to take it the wrong way."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, then give it to me right then."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "I signed you because I sensed something special in you not because you sound like Nate Cole or Charles Brown."
• (Jamie Foxx) "But I thought you liked what I do."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Look we love the tenor of your voice, your vituosity, your energy --"
• (Jamie Foxx) "But not my music."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Man, I didn't say that."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Look, Ahmet, this is what I do. I gotta make a living. This is what the people want. I don't know no other way."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Well we gotta help you find one. Look, let's try a little change of pace. Your familiar with stride piano?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "You kidding me, man? The man I learned the piano from was a stride player."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Okay, I've got a song. It's called the Mess Around."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Mess around. Cute title. Who wrote it?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "I did."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh. You wrote it. Well, sing it to me, man."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Sing it?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, it's not like I can read the lyrics."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Alright. It's in the key of G."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Key of G."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "No. More like a Pete Johnson kind of thing."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Pete Johnson."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Yeah, yeah. That's good."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Oh, you like that? Okay, let's go."

• (Curtis Armstrong) "If you think pennies, Mr. Charles, you get pennies. If you think dollars, you get dollars."

David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw

• (David Krumholtz) "Forget second billing. Ray Charles headlines at a thousand per or no deal."
• (David Krumholtz) "Terrific."

• (David Krumholtz) "He's filed a lawsuit, Ray, and it's more than a fine. This guy's got juice, he can get you barred from ever playing Georgia again. But he's willing to drop the suit if you make up the gig."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Not if it's segregated."
• (David Krumholtz) "Ray -- I admire what you're doing, man, but you can't afford this. Georgia's our highest grossing state."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I'm never playing another Jim Crow joint ever again, do you got that?"
• (David Krumholtz) "I got it."

• (David Krumholtz) "He's off the Chitlin Circuit. Down Beat just voted him best male jazz vocalist by a two to one margin."
• (David Krumholtz) "Well, if you want to keep him in Philadelphia, you're gonna find him a bigger venue."

• (David Krumholtz) "You know, Ray, your contract with Atlantic expires in 4 months."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, I know. Ahmet and Jerry sent me my new contract. They're gonna double my royalties."
• (David Krumholtz) "Before we go down that road again I thought I'd check and see what else was out there."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Now, who told you to do that? Atlantic is family. Just like the Shaw agency."
• (David Krumholtz) "Ray, my job is to find you the best deal out there. Now, I had a very productive meeting with the folks at ABC Paramount and they are very interested."
• (Jamie Foxx) "No. How interested?"
• (David Krumholtz) "How about a 50 thousand dollar advance every year for the first three years? You choose your own music. They'll deduct recording costs and pay you 75 percent. Now, look, Ahmet and Jerry are flying in tomorrow night. Will you at least put them off until I have a chance to talk to the boys at ABC?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, my mama always said there was nothin' wrong with talkin'."

• (David Krumholtz) "Ray Charles. We believe in your talent. We want to be in the Ray Charles business. We've already got you booked on a ten city tour with Roy Milton's Solid Senders and Tangula, the exotic shake dancer."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "She is gorgeous."

Denise Dowse as Marlene

• (Denise Dowse) "I've got some more blackberry cobbler for you."

• (Denise Dowse) "Gossie been cattin' with one of my waitresses since he got here. He never told me his partner was a blind 'Bama boy."
• (Warwick Davis) "Marlene, Demure called. Thurman's sick."
• (Denise Dowse) "What about Sassie."
• (Warwick Davis) "Flat tire."
• (Denise Dowse) "Alright, 'Bama, why don't you get up there and show me what you got."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Well, I, I'm not really prepared to do my thing, I mean, right now, tonight."
• (Denise Dowse) "Well, this is the only audition you're gonna get, Puddin', so either get on up there or you and Gossie can haul your asses back down south."
• (Warwick Davis) "Here smoke some of this."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That ain't no tobacco, man."
• (Warwick Davis) "No. Hold it in. It'll calm you down."
• (Denise Dowse) "Alright, Oberon, get up there and introduce him."
• (Warwick Davis) "Yes, Maam."
• (Denise Dowse) "Come on, 'Bama."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah."
• (Warwick Davis) "I got a special treat for all you satin dolls and I'm not talking about Oberon's big thunder. No, that's for another show. We got some new blood for ya. Fresh off the bus from Florida I give you Ray "Don't Call Me Sugar" Robinson."
• (Jamie Foxx) "How y'all doin' tonight?"
• (Unnamed) "Better than you."
• (Warwick Davis) "Relax, Ray, relax."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I got it. What do y'all wanna hear?"
• (Kerry Washington) "How 'bout a little Nat King Cole?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Y'all like Nat King Cole?"
• (Denise Dowse) "'Bama ain't bad."
• (Warwick Davis) "I'd say he saved our asses."

Clifton Powell as Jeff Brown

• (Clifton Powell) "Where you from Ray?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "North Florida."
• (Clifton Powell) "Old North Florida boy. Your people still down there?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "Naw."
• (Clifton Powell) "All right. Hey, pardon me for asking, but how do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?"
• (Jamie Foxx) "How do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?"
• (Clifton Powell) "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry."
• (Jamie Foxx) "My ears gotta be my eyes, man. Everything sounds different, you know? That's why I wear hard sole shoes so I can hear the echo of my footsteps off the wall. When I pass by an open doorway the sound changes."
• (Clifton Powell) "Wow, that's cool."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You gotta learn pretty quick if you want to get around on your own."

• (Margie Hendricks) "Listen to that crap. I thought you said ABC wasn't gonna force nothing on him."
• (Clifton Powell) "They didn't. It was Ray's idea. Something new."
• (Margie Hendricks) "What are we then, Jeff? Something old?"
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "Yeah. We got to eat too."

Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler

• (Richard Schiff) "Ahmet believes we're family here at Atlantic Records. I believe we're family at Atlantic. Obviously you don't. Ahmet wouldn't believe it. You know what he said, Ray? He said you would never turn your back on us. Never for a schlockmeister like Sam Clark. Ha. That's rich. Sam Clark's a corporate slug who wouldn't know the difference between Earl Hines and Art Tatum. We let you grow here, Ray. Nobody's taking credit for your talent, but we nourished it. We let you do your thing. god**** it, we deserve better than this."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You know that I appreciate everything you guys have done here, Jerry. Ahmet, I'm very proud of the work we've done here together and Atlantic has done pretty good moneywise on my records, haven't they?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Yes, we've done very well, Ray."
• (Jamie Foxx) "You're the ones who taught me that making a record is business and find the best business deal that you can. Now seventy-five cents of every dollar and owning my own masters is a pretty damn good deal. Can you match it?"
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Ray we would love to match it, but we just can't. That's a better deal than Sinatra gets -- I'm very proud of you."

• (Richard Schiff) "Ruth Brown's got a tour booked in Georgia. She needs a band."
• (Jamie Foxx) "I'll take it. I could write the charts for her, I could do backup, and I could also be an opening act."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Okay. But you're gonna be financially responsible. You're gonna have to make it work, Ray."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna make it do what it do, baby."

• (Richard Schiff) "Ahmet."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Yeah?"
• (Richard Schiff) "We gotta get this on wax."
• (Curtis Armstrong) "Oh, yeah."

Warwick Davis as Oberon

• (Warwick Davis) "I asked Marlene for a raise the other day. You know what she said. She said I should be grateful I ain't back at the circus, getting out of a car with ten other midgets."
• (Jamie Foxx) "That's Marlene."
• (Warwick Davis) "Bitch knew just how to shut me up, threatening to take away my bacon. 'Cause you know man. When I'm up on that stage with a mic in my hand, and the lights in my face, ain't nobody bigger than me. Nobody baby."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Yeah, when I'm up there playin', I mean they really shut up and listen. Nobody lookin' down on me, or no bad dreams. I'm home free."
• (Warwick Davis) "You know, Marlene and Gossie are the ones running the game on you Ray. They sliced up the pie the first night you played. Thirty-five percent off the top. Plus Gossie's double scale as leader."
• (Jamie Foxx) "Leader? If anyone should be getting paid for being the leader I'm the one leading the band."

Harry Lennix as Joe Adams

• (Harry Lennix) "This foyer is designed to impress anybody who walks in the door. There's a big winding staircase, just like "Gone with the Wind"."
• (Jamie Foxx) "We should get our portraits painted, like Rhett and Scarlett."

• (Harry Lennix) "You don't have to talk to Ray, you're talking to me."
• (Bokeem Woodbine) "I'll talk to whoever I damn well please and it sure as hell ain't you."

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