“Ray would read me lines from the script. He’d ask, ‘Is that Jimmy?’ Most of the time I’d say,
“Ray would read me lines from the script. He’d ask, ‘Is that Jimmy?’ Most of the time I’d say, "No. It’s too straight. Jimmy doesn’t just hit the ball back to you; he bounces it all over.’ Later, when I saw the movie, just as soon as I saw Jimmy’s drunken business with the toy monkey at the beginning, I thought, ‘Ray’s got it—that’s the essence of Jimmy!’” -Isabel Draesemer -- source link