Margie Hendricks Quotes in Ray (2004)

Margie Hendricks: You a cold-ass bastard, Ray!

Ray Charles: 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?

Ray Charles: Ahmet takes care of all of that.

Margie Hendricks: You mean he don't listen to you?

Ray Charles: 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.

Ray Charles: Well is your mother here?

Margie Hendricks: No she's not, but I speak for us.

Ray Charles: Okay Speak For Us, how about $20 a week.

Margie Hendricks: We'll take $40. Each.

Ray Charles: Forty each?

Margie Hendricks: You heard me!

Ray Charles: Naw! How about $25.

Margie Hendricks: We'll take $30.

Ray Charles: I better say yes before you talk me out of my drawers.

[the Cookies cheer and laugh]

Ray Charles: Is it a deal?

Margie Hendricks: Oh! Yeah!

Ray Charles: You'll be called the Raelettes.

Margie Hendricks: Does that mean we have to let Ray?

Ray Charles: Oh, what am I gonna do with you?

Margie Hendricks: I'm sure you'll think of something.

Ray Charles: 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.

Mary Ann Fisher: I ain't no bass. I'm a soprano.

Margie Hendricks: I'll sing bass. Where we come from we can sing anything.

Mary Ann Fisher: We talking about singing, sugar, not hog calling.

Fathead Newman: Oh that's cold.

Margie Hendricks: Who you calling a hog?

Mary Ann Fisher: Well, if the corn cob fits.

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.

Ray Charles: From now on you guys are gonna be called the Raylettes.

Margie Hendricks: Does that mean we have to "let Ray"?