Ray (I) (2004)

Clifton Powell: Jeff Brown

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Quotes 

• Jeff Brown : Where you from Ray?

  Ray Charles : North Florida.

  Jeff Brown : Old North Florida boy. Your people still down there?

  Ray Charles : Naw.

  Jeff Brown : All right. Hey, pardon me for asking, but how do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?

  Ray Charles : How do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?

  Jeff Brown : I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry.

  Ray Charles : 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.

  Jeff Brown : Wow, that's cool.

  Ray Charles : You gotta learn pretty quick if you want to get around on your own.

• Ray Charles : Marge is drunk, Jeff. Go home and sleep it off.

  Jeff Brown : Let me take you home.

  Margie Hendricks : No. I'll leave when I'm good and goddamn ready to.

  Ray Charles : She's good and goddamn ready right now.

• [Ray is recording "Georgia on my Mind"] 

  Margie Hendricks : Listen to that crap. I thought you said ABC wasn't gonna force nothing on him.

  Jeff Brown : They didn't. It was Ray's idea. Something new.

  Margie Hendricks : What are we then, Jeff? Something old?

  Fathead Newman : Yeah. We got to eat too.

• [after Ray accuses Jeff of stealing] 

  Ray Charles : How could you do that? We've been through so much. We were like brothers.

  Jeff Brown : Ray... if we were like brothers, why are you paying Joe more than you're paying me?

  Ray Charles : Damn all that. You broke my heart.

  Jeff Brown : Well you know what, Ray? You broke mine a long goddamn time ago.

  Ray Charles : Well, there it is.

  [Jeff walks away] 

  Jeff Brown : 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!

• Fathead Newman : Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine me for being late.

  Ray Charles : What time did you get here?

  Fathead Newman : What? Just now. The band's still setting up. Jeff never...

  Joe Adams : I'm not Jeff.

  Fathead Newman : That's a fact, Jack.

  Jeff Brown : Ray, you said the band was my thing.

  Ray Charles : That's right, I did.

  Jeff Brown : Fathead, you go on back to rehearsal.

  Fathead Newman : Ray! You know how it is, you've been there.

  Jeff Brown : Fathead, go on now. I'll take care of this. Ray you want to tell me what's going on man?

  Joe Adams : 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.

  Jeff Brown : I'm not talking to you, Joe. I'm talking to Ray.