Della Bea Robinson Quotes in Ray (2004)

Ray Charles: I hear like you see. Like that hummingbird outside the window, for instance.

Della Bea Robinson: [astonished] I can't hear her.

Ray Charles: You have to listen.

Della Bea Robinson: [closes her eyes, hears the hummingbird] Yes!

Ray Charles: Yeah. Yes, you can... Uh-oh. Did you hear that?

Della Bea Robinson: What?

Ray Charles: Her heart just skipped a beat.

Della Bea Robinson: He isn't my gift to you, he's your son.

[last lines]

Della Bea Robinson: If only your mama was here.

Ray Charles: She's here. She ain't never left.

Ray Charles: There's some things you're not understandin'...

Della Bea Robinson: Well, make me understand, Ray!

Ray Charles: Baby, when I walk out that door I walk out alone in the dark. I'm trying to do something ain't nobody ever done in music and business. But I can't do it if I'm alone everywhere I go. I don't wanna be alone here, Bea. Not in my own home. Look, Bea, if you don't understand me, then who will?

Ray Charles: Ms. Antoine, it's been two weeks.

Della Bea Robinson: It's been three.

[they kiss and she pushes him inside]

Ray Charles: Well, where's the preacher at and the wife?

Della Bea Robinson: They're in Dallas till Monday.

Ray Charles: Well, hallelujah.

Della Bea Robinson: [talking about Ray's drug problem] You have got to stop this now because there is something you love more then me...

Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea...

Della Bea Robinson: ...there is something you love more then me, the children, and every woman you ever slept with.

Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love you more then anythin'

Della Bea Robinson: [shouts] It's your music!

[starts to cry]

Della Bea Robinson: And if you keep usin' that needle they'll take away your music and put you in *jail!* Is that what you want?

Della Bea Robinson: Let me call you a cab.

Ray Charles: I got it. Three blocks up, left for two, right for one, fifteen giant steps and I'm at the Crystal White Hotel. Hello!

Della Bea Robinson: I'm having second thoughts about this. I don't know nobody in L.A.

Ray Charles: 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.

Della Bea Robinson: Ray, my whole family is in Texas.

Ray Charles: That's why we're moving to L.A.

Della Bea Robinson: The only thing that can help you is God, Ray!

Ray Charles: 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.

Della Bea Robinson: Stop talking like that.

Ray Charles: As far as I'm concerned, me and God is even, and I do what I damn well please.

[Della Bea has just discovered Ray's drug problem]

Della Bea Robinson: That stuff kills people, Ray. Now you've gotta stop it.

Ray Charles: I don't have to do a *goddamn* thing!

Ray Charles: I want you to promise me something. Promise you won't feel sorry for me just because I'm blind.

Della Bea Robinson: How can I pity someone I admire?