Jeff Brown Quotes in Ray (2004)

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.

[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!

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.

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.