Ray (I) (2004)
Regina King: Margie Hendricks
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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Margie Hendricks : You a cold-ass bastard, Ray!
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Ray Charles : From now on you guys are gonna be called the Raylettes.
Margie Hendricks : Does that mean we have to "let Ray"?