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 do...
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
[deleted scene] Oberon: I asked Marlene for a raise the other day. You know what she said. She said I should be grateful I ain't back at the circus, getting out of a car with ten other midgets. Ray Charles: That's Marlene. Oberon: Bitch knew just how...
I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
Failure has gone to his head.
There is no caste in blood.
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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 chil...
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
My grandfather and I were very close.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
Oberon: You know, Marlene and Gossie's the ones running the game on you, Ray. They sliced up the pie the first night you played. Thirty-five percent off the top. Plus Gossie's double scale as leader. Ray Charles: Leader. If anyone's leadin' the band ...
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
All the women in my family were superb cooks.
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
