“- Ahmet Ertegun: Ray, I'm gonna tell you something and I don't want you to take it the wrong way.
- Ray Charles: Well, then give it to me right then.
- Ahmet Ertegun: I signed you because I sensed something special in you, not because you sound like Nate Cole or Charles Brown.”

Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun
Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles

“It takes talent to make money. It takes brains to keep money.”
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall

“You've got the brains and the talent to go as far as you want. And when you do, I'll be right there to borrow money.”
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“No one else can do what I can do. In any medium. That's what I call talent.”
Jackie Gleason

“You're plenty original without having to order something weird to drink.”
Kate Beckinsale - Charlotte